- Juei
. [Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). "Annales des empereurs du Japon," pp. 200-207; Brown, Delmer "et al." (1979). "Gukanshō," pp. 333-334; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). "Jinnō Shōtōki." pp. 214-215.]
Change of era
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1182 : 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 "Yōwa" 2, on the 27th day of the 5th month of 1182. [Brown, p. 333.]Events of the "Juei" era
* "Juei 1" (
1182 ): The entire country suffers a famine. [Kitagawa, H. (1975). "The Tale of the Heike," p. 785.]
* "Juei 2", 25th day of 7th month (1183 ): TheHeike flee the capital withEmperor Antoku andThree Sacred Treasures .Kitagawa, p. 786.]
* "Juei 2", on the 20th day of the 8th month (1183 ): In the 3rd year of Antoku"-tennō"'s reign (安徳天皇25年), the emperor fled the capital rather than give in to pressures for his abdication. In Antoku's absence, the cloistered former-Emperor Go-Shirakawa then elevated his young brother by decree; and the young child was given the acceptance of abdication ("juzen") rites. [Varley, p. 216.] The anti-Taira faction intended that the succession (‘‘senso’’) was received; and shortly thereafter, Emperor Go-Toba is said to have acceded to the throne (‘‘sokui’’). [Titsingh, pp. 206-207; Brown, p. 334; 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.] ]
* "Juei 2", 20th day of 8th month (1183 ):Emperor Go-Toba is enthroned without the imperial regalia. [see above] ]
* "Juei 2", on the 20th day of the 8th month (1183 ): Go-Toba is proclaimed emperor by the Genji; and consequently, there were two proclaimed emperors, one living in Heian-kyō and another in flight towards the south. [Titsingh, p. 207.]
* "Juei 3", 2nd month (1184 ):Cloistered Emperor Go-Shirakawa orders letter to be written to the Heike demanding the restoration or return of the imperial regalia. [see above] ]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
* Kitagawa, Hiroshi and Bruce T. Tsuchida, eds. (1975). "The Tale of the Heike ." Tokyo:University of Tokyo Press . ISBN 0-86006-128-1
* 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 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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