- Enpō
. [Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). "Annales des empereurs du japon," pp. 414-415.]
Change of era
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1673 : The new era of "Enpō" (meaning "Prolonged Wealth") was created to mark a number of disasters including a great fire in Kyōto. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in "Kanbun" 14, on the ninth day of the 13th month.Events of the "Enpō" era
* "Enpō 1" (
1673 ): There was a great fire inHeian-kyō .Titsingh, p. 414.]
* "Enpō 1" (1673 ): The foundations forMitsui financial success began with the opening of a dry good store inEdo . [Hall, John Whitney. (1970). "Japan: From Prehistory to Modern Times," p. 209.]
* "Enpō 2", on the 5th day of the 4th month (1674 ):Ingen Ryuki , founder of the Ōbaku sect of Japanese Zen Buddhism, died atMampuku-ji , a Buddhist temple which Ingen had founded atUji , near Heian-kyō. [see above] ]
* "Enpō 3" (1675 ): A devastating fire burned Heian-kyō. [see above] ]
* "Enpō 3" (1675 ): TheBonin Islands ("Ogasawara" Islands) are explored by shogunate expedition, following up "discovery" of the islands by the Japanese when a ship bound for Edo from Kyushu is blown off course by a storm in "Kanbun" 10. The islands are claimed as a territory of Japan. [Tanaka, Hiroyuki. (1993). "The Ogasawara Islands in Tokugawa Japan," "Kaiji Shi Kenkyuu (Journal of the Maritime History)".]
* "Enpō 8", on the 8th day of the 3rd month (1680 ):Tokugawa Ietsuna , the 4th shogun of the Edo bakufu died; and his named successor,Tokugawa Tsunayoshi , was ready to take his place as the 5th Tokugawa shogun. [see above] ]References
* Hall, John Whitney. (1970). "Japan: From Prehistory to Modern Times" in "Delacorte World History," Vol. XX. New York:
Delacorte Press . ISBN 0-2970-0237-6
* Screech, Timon. (2006). "Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822." London:RoutledgeCurzon . ISBN 0-700-71720-X
* Tanaka, Hiroyuki. (1993). "The Ogasawara Islands in Tokugawa Japan," "Kaiji Shi Kenkyuu (Journal of the Maritime History)". No. 50, June, 1993, Tokyo: The Japan Society of the History of Maritime. [http://japanese.human.metro-u.ac.jp/kokubun/bonins/04tanaka.htm ... Click link to digitized, full-text copy of this monograph (in English)]
* 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)]External links
* National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" [http://www.ndl.go.jp/koyomi/e/ -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection]
Enpō 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th Gregorian 1673 1674 1675 1676 1677 1678 1679 1680 1681
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