was a after ''
Eikyō'' and before ''
Bun'an''. This period spanned the years from February 1441 through February 1444. The reigning emperor was .
Change of era
* 1451 : The era name was changed to mark an event or a number of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in ''Eikyō'' 13.
Events of the ''Kakitsu'' era
* July 12, 1441 (''Kakitsu 1, 24th day of the 6th month''): ''
Shōgun
, officially , was the title of the military rulers of Japan during most of the period spanning from 1185 to 1868. Nominally appointed by the Emperor, shoguns were usually the de facto rulers of the country, except during parts of the Kamak ...
''
Ashikaga Yoshinori is murdered at age 48 by
Akamatsu Mitsusuke who was upset that Akamatsu Sadaura was made leader of the Akamatsu clan. Shortly thereafter, Yoshinori's 8-year-old son,
Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, was proclaimed as the new ''shōgun''.
*July 12–28, 1441: A number of prominent nobles were also killed defending Shōgun Yoshinori directly through the fighting including
Kyōgoku Takakazu, the
Shugo
, commonly translated as ' ilitarygovernor', 'protector', or 'constable', was a title given to certain officials in feudal Japan. They were each appointed by the shogun to oversee one or more of the provinces of Japan. The position gave way to th ...
of
Yamashiro Province
was a province of Japan, located in Kinai. It overlaps the southern part of modern Kyoto Prefecture on Honshū. Aliases include , the rare , and . It is classified as an upper province in the '' Engishiki''.
Yamashiro Province included Kyoto it ...
and Ōuchi Mochiyo (1394–1441), the head of the
Ōuchi clan
was one of the most powerful and important families in Western Japan during the reign of the Ashikaga shogunate in the 14th to 16th centuries. Their domains, ruled from the castle town of Yamaguchi in the western tip of Honshu island, compris ...
.
* 1441 (''Kakitsu 1, 9th month''): The murderers of Yoshinori kill themselves.
* 1443 (''Kakitsu 3''): A Japanese-Korean diplomatic agreement (sometimes called the "
Kakitsu treaty") regularized an initial plan for mitigating the damage caused by pirates (''
wakō''). The bilateral agreement assigned the responsibility for monitoring ships from Japan en route to Korea. The
Sō clan of
Tsushima han (
Tsushima Island) were given the right to license ships sailing west beyond Tsushima; and this also encompassed the opportunity to profit from whatever fees the Sō might charge.
* August 16, 1443 (''Kakitsu 3, 21st day of the 7th month''): ''Shōgun'' Yoshikatsu died at the age of 10. He liked riding horses very much; but he was gravely injured in a fall from a horse. This was the cause of his death. He had been shōgun for only three years. His 8-year-old brother,
Ashikaga Yoshinari, was then named ''shōgun''.
* October 16, 1443 (''Kakitsu 3, 23rd day of the 9th month''): An armed group of rebels penetrated the palace defenses. A fire was started and one of the men sought to kill Go-Hanazono, but the emperor escaped. However, the intruders managed to steal the
Three Sacred Treasures – the mirror, the sword and the jewel. Later, a guard found the mirror and a priest found the sword, but the location of jewel was not known until the 8th month of ''
Bunnan gannen''.
[Titsingh]
pp. 344
345.
Notes
References
*
Hall, John Whitney. (1997). ''The Cambridge History of Japan: Early Modern Japan''. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press was the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted a letters patent by King Henry VIII in 1534, it was the oldest university press in the world. Cambridge University Press merged with Cambridge Assessme ...
. ;
* Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). ''Japan Encyclopedia''. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press (HUP) is an academic publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University. It is a member of the Association of University Presses. Its director since 2017 is George Andreou.
The pres ...
.
OCLC 48943301*
Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). ''
Nihon Ōdai Ichiran
, ', is a 17th-century chronicle of the serial reigns of Japanese emperors with brief notes about some of the noteworthy events or other happenings.
According to the 1871 edition of the ''American Cyclopaedia'', the 1834 French translation of ...
''; ou
''Annales des empereurs du Japon''. Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland
OCLC 5850691
External links
*
National Diet Library
The is the national library of Japan and among the largest libraries in the world. It was established in 1948 for the purpose of assisting members of the in researching matters of public policy. The library is similar in purpose and scope to ...
, "The Japanese Calendar
– historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection
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