- Hōtoku
. [Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). "Annales des empereurs du Japon," pp. 331-347.]
Change of era
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1449 : The era name was changed to mark an event or a number of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in "Bun'an" 6, on the 28th day of the 7th month of 1449. [Tonomura, Hitomi. (1992) "Community and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan: The Corporate Villages of Tokuchin-ho," p. 221 n16.]Events of the "Hōtoku" era
* "Hōtoku 1" (
1449 ): Ashikaga Yoshimasa becomes shogun.
* "Hōtoku 3", in the 7th month (1451 ): A delegation from theRyukyu Islands arrives for the first time inHeian-kyō . [Titsingh, p. 347.]
* "Hōtoku 3" (October 14 ,1451 ): Fire destroys structures clustered nearGango-ji in Nara, [ [http://whc.unesco.org/archive/advisory_body_evaluation/870.pdf Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara ] ] but what remains gives an impression of what the oldest Buddhist temple in Japan might have been like. [ [http://www.insecula.com/us/musee/M0226.html Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara ] ]References
* Titsingh, Isaac, ed. (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)]
* Tonomura, Hitomi. (1992) "Community and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan: The Corporate Villages of Tokuchin-ho." Stanford:Stanford University Press . ISBN 0-8047-1941-1External 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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