Kenkyū

. [Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). "Annales des empereurs du Japon," pp. 207-221; Brown, Delmer "et al." (1979). "Gukanshō," pp. 334-339; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). "Jinnō Shōtōki." pp. 215-220.]

Change of era

*; 1190: 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 "Bunji" 6, on the 14th day of the 8th month of 1185.Brown, p. 337.]

Events of the "Kenkyū" era

* "Kenkyū 3", on the 13th day of the 3rd month (1192): The former-Emperor Go-Shirakawa died at the age of 66.Brown, p. 337] He had been father or grandfather to five emperors -- Emperor Nijō, the 78th emperor; Emperor Rokujō, the 79th emperor; Emperor Takakura, the 80th emperor; Emperor Antoku, the 81st emperor; and Go-Toba, the 81st emperor. [Varley, p. 208; Kitagawa "et al." (1975). "The Tale of the Heike," p. 788.]
* "Kenkyū 3", 12th day of the 7th month (1192): Minamoto Yoritomo is named commander-in-chief of the forces to fight the barbarians.Kitagawa, p. 788.]
* "Kenkyū 6", 4th day of the 3rd month (1195): Shogun Yoritomo revisits the capital. [see above] ]
* "Kenkyū 9", on the 11th day of the 1st month (1198): In the 15th year of Go-Toba"-tennō"'s reign (後鳥天皇15年), the emperor abdicated; and the succession (‘‘senso’’) was received by his eldest son. [Brown, p.339; Varley, p. 44, . [A distinct act of "senso" is unrecognized prior to Emperor Tenji; and all sovereigns except Jitō, Yōzei, Go-Toba, and Fushimi have "senso" and "sokui" in the same year until the reign of Go-Murakami.] ]
* "Kenkyū 9", in the 3rd month (1198): Emperor Tsuchimikado is said to have acceded to the throne (‘‘sokui’’). [Titsingh, p.221; Varley, p. 44.]
* "Kenkyū 10", 13th day of the 1st month (1199): Shogun Yoritomo dies at age 53 in Kamakura. [see above] ]

References

* Brown, Delmer and Ichiro Ishida, eds. (1979). [ Jien, 1221] , "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
* Kitagawa, Hiroshi and Bruce T. Tsuchida, eds. (1975). "The Tale of the Heike." Tokyo. University of Tokyo Press. ISBN 0-86008-128-1
* 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)]
* 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 0231-04940-4

External links

* National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" [http://www.ndl.go.jp/koyomi/e/ -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection]