- Eiso
::"For the Okinawan king, see
Eiso (Ryukyu) . For the Vietnamese era name, seeEiso (Vietnam) "nihongo|Eiso|永祚| was a nihongo|Japanese era|年号,|"nengō",|lit. "
year name" after "Eien " and before "Shōryaku ." This period spanned the years from988 through990 . The reigning emperor was nihongo|Ichijō"-tennō"|一条天皇. [Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). "Annales des empereurs du japon," pp. 150-154; Brown, Delmer "et al." (1979). "Gukanshō," p. 302-307; Varely, H. Paul. (1980). "Jinnō Shōtōki," pp. 192-195.]Change of era
*;
989 : The new era name was created to mark an event or a number of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in "Eien" 2, on the 8th day of the 8th month of 989. [Brown, p. 305.]Events of "Eiso" era
* "Eiso 1" (
989 ):References
* 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 Society 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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