- Taihō (era)
. [Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). "Annales des empereurs du Japon," pp. 60-63; Brown, Delmer "et al." (1979). "Gukanshō," pp. 270-271; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). "Jinnō Shōtōki." pp. 137-140.]
Change of era
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701 : The new era name "Taihō" (meaning "Great Treasure") was proclaimed to memorialize the creation of the "great treasure" of codified organization and laws. The new era commenced on the 21st day of the 3rd month of 701. [Brown, p. 271.]Events of the "Taihō" era
* "Taihō 2" (
702 ): TheThe nihongo|Taihō Code or Code of Taihō|大宝律令|"Taihō-ritsuryō" or "Taihōryō" reorganizing the central government and completing many of the reforms begun by theTaika Reforms in646 . [Asakawa, Kan'ichi. (1903). "The Early Institutional Life of Japan," p.13.]References
* Asakawa, Kan'ichi. (1903). "The Early Institutional Life of Japan." Tokyo:
Shueisha [New York: Paragon Book Reprint Corp., 1963] .
* Brown, Delmer and Ichiro Ishida, eds. (1979). [Jien , c.1220] , "Gukanshō ; "The Future and the Past: a translation and study of the 'Gukanshō,' an interpretive history of Japan written in 1219" translated from the Japanese and edited by Delmer M. Brown & Ichirō Ishida." Berkeley:University of California Press . ISBN 0-520-03460-0
* Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō , 1652] . "Nipon o daï itsi ran ; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon, tr. par M. Isaac Titsingh avec l'aide de plusieurs interprètes attachés au comptoir hollandais de Nangasaki; ouvrage re., complété et cor. sur l'original japonais-chinois, accompagné de notes et précédé d'un Aperçu d'histoire mythologique du Japon, par M. J. Klaproth." Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. [http://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&dq=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran ... Click link for digitized, full-text copy of this book (in French)]
* Varley, H. Paul , ed. (1980). [Kitabatake Chikafusa , 1359] , "Jinnō Shōtōki ("A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa" translated by H. Paul Varley)." New York:Columbia University Press . ISBN 0-231-04940-4External links
* National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" [http://www.ndl.go.jp/koyomi/e/ -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection]
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