- Hōreki
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Change of era
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October 27 ,1751 : The new era of "Hōreki" (meaning "Valuable Calendar" or "Valuable Almanac") was said to have been created to mark the death of the retired Emperor Sakuramachi and the death of the formerShogun Tokugawa Yoshimune . ::The previous era could be said to have ended and the new era is understood to have commenced in "Kan'en" 4, on the 27th day of the 10th month; however, this nengō was promulgated retroactively. The "Keikō Kimon" records that the calendar was amended by Imperial command, and the era was re-named Hōreki on December 2, 1754, which then would have become 19th day of the 10th month of the 4th year of Hōreki. [Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1959). "Kyoto: The Old Capital of Japan, 794-1869," p. 321.]Events of the "Hōreki" era
* "Hōreki 8" (
1758 ): The "Hōreki" Incident
* "Hōreki 10" (1760 ): Shogun Ieshige resigns and his son, Ieharu, becomes the 10th shogun of theTokugawa shogunate .Hall, John. (1988). "The Cambridge History of Japan," p. xxiii.]
* "Hōreki 13" (1763 ): A merchant association handling Korean ginseng is founded in the Kanda district ofEdo . [see above] ]Notes
References
* Hall, John Whitney. (1988). "The Cambridge History of Japan," v4: "Early Modern Japan." Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press . ISBN 0-5212-2357-1
* Ponsonby-Fane, Richard A.B. (1959). "Kyoto: The Old Capital of Japan, 794-1869." Kyoto: Ponsonby-Fane Memorial.
* Screech, Timon. (2006). "Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822." London: Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō , 1652] , "Nipon o daï itsi ran ; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon." 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)]External links
* National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" [http://www.ndl.go.jp/koyomi/e/ -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection]
* National Archives of Japan [http://jpimg.digital.archives.go.jp/jpg_prg/jgmWeb?%TmpFileDisp%env=jpeg2k_images/ezu/nihonyochizu/107_ogasawara_e.env ...Clink link for map of Ogasawara Islands drawn in 2nd year of "Horeki" (1752)]Hōreki 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th Gregorian 1751 1752 1753 1754 1755 1756 1757 1758 1759 1760 1761 1762 1763 1764 Preceded by:
"Kan'en"Era or "nengō": Hōreki Succeeded by:
"Meiwa "
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