mochikuni

Updated: July 31, 2026

The young shogun, however, did not long survive the punishment of his father's murderers. He died in 1443, at the age of ten, and was succeeded by his brother Yoshimasa, then in his eighth year. During the latter's minority, the administration fell into the hands of Hatakeyama Mochikuni and Hosokawa Katsumoto, who held the office of Muromachi kwanryo alternately.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era