Akamatsu Yoshinori

• • Period: Muromachi Period
  • Occupation: Minister
  • Family: Akamatsu Mitsusuke (son)
  • Birth: 1358
  • Death: 1427

Akamatsu Yoshinori

Akamatsu Yoshinori (赤松 義則) was a member of the Akamatsu Family living from 1358-1427.

He was the father of Akamatsu Mitsusuke and served as a minister under Ashikaga Yoshimitsu.

He became a monk later in life under the name of Shōshō and was a man of small stature which gained him the nickname of sanshaku nyūdo (the three foot high monk).¹

Footnotes

1. Louis Frederic, translated by Kathe Roth (2002) “Japan Encyclopedia”. London: Harvard University Press.

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