Stories of the Japanese 01283 [Muromachi/Yoshimochi Period] Yoshimochi's Personnel Decisions

August 16, 1408. The hundredth-day memorial service for Yoshimitsu was held, but Yoshimochi omitted the alms-giving and simplified the ceremony. While this instruction is typical of the frugal-minded Yoshimochi, I feel it also contains a significant amount of backlash against Yoshimitsu.
And so, Yoshimochi began to revoke one after another the personnel decisions that Yoshimitsu had made arbitrarily. Hatakeyama Mitsuyoshi (?–1432) and Okuongamaru are examples of this.
Previously, Hatakeyama Motokuni had boasted of his power as Kanrei (shogunal deputy), but he passed away in 1406. Normally, his eldest son Mitsuie should have inherited the family headship, but for some reason, Mitsuie was disliked by Yoshimitsu and forced into seclusion, and the second son, Mitsuyoshi, inherited the family headship and the positions of shugo (military governor) of the four provinces of Kawachi, Kii, Etchu, and Noto.
When Yoshimitsu died, Yoshimochi ordered Mitsuyoshi to return the family headship to his older brother Mitsuie. However, perhaps thinking that taking away all four provinces was going too far, Noto was allowed to remain under Mitsuyoshi's rule. This was the beginning of the 'Noto Hatakeyama clan'.
In the eulogy on Hatakeyama Mitsuyoshi's portrait, it is written as if the younger brother had voluntarily returned the family headship and the four provinces to his older brother, and the older brother had voluntarily returned only Noto to his younger brother, praising it as a 'righteous act for the world,' but in reality, it seems to have been a personnel change led by Yoshimochi.
As for Okuongamaru, he was merely a monk serving as a page to Yoshimitsu, in a position akin to a housekeeper at the company president's home, but he was favored by Yoshimitsu and even appointed as the shugo of Izumi. Once again, when Yoshimitsu died, the position of shugo of Izumi was taken away and bestowed upon the Hosokawa family. Okuongamaru fell completely into ruin.
October 8. Yoshimochi gave instructions:
'Uramatsu Shigemitsu shall handle matters related to the court nobles, and Ise Sadayuki shall handle matters related to the warrior class.'
The Uramatsu family was a branch of the Hino family and served as the window for the warrior class among the court nobles; they were a family that produced successive wives for the shogunal family and held real power in the mid-Muromachi period. On the other hand, the Ise family were warriors, acting like chiefs of staff connecting the shogun and the shugo, and were also the tutors for the shogun's heir. This family also held immense power in the mid-Muromachi period.
Looking at it this way, although Yoshimochi felt resentment toward Yoshimitsu's personnel decisions that favored his own inner circle and revoked his father's appointments one after another, it does not seem that Yoshimochi himself was a fair person. After all, Yoshimochi also favored his wife's family and his own tutor.
The Uramatsu (Hino) family and the Ise family might be similar to the Hojo and Hiki families of the early Kamakura Shogunate in that they were the 'shogun's wife's family' and the 'shogun's childhood tutor.' However, since there were many other powerful shugo, it is probably not accurate to say that they controlled the shogunate.