- Kyūju
. [Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). "Annales des emepereurs du japon," pp. 186-188; Brown, Delmer "et al." (1979). "Gukanshō," pp. 324-327; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). "Jinnō Shōtōki," pp. 205-208.]
Change of era
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1154 : 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 Ninpei 4, on the 28th day of the 10th month of 1154.Brown, p. 326.]Events of the "Kyūju" era
* "Kyūju 1", in the 5th month (
1154 ): The "udaijin " Minamoto Masasada retired from public life to become a priest at age 61. He died several years later.Titsingh, p. 188.]
* "Kyūju 1", in the 8th month (1154 ): Fujiwara Saneyoshi, Grand General of the Right, was elevated to the role of Grand General of the Left; and the former "dainagon " Fujiwara Kanenaga (aged 17) was elevated to take on the newly vacated role of Grand General of the Right. [see above] ]
* "Kyūju 2", on the 23rd day of the 7th month (1155 ):Emperor Konoe died at the age of 17 years without leaving any heirs. [see above] ]
* "Kyūju 2", on the 24th day of the 7th month (1155 ): In the 14th year of Konoe"-tennō"'s reign (近衛天皇14年), the emperor died; and despite an ensuring dispute over who should follow her as sovereign, contemporary scholars then construed that the succession (‘‘senso’’) was received by a younger brother, the 14th son of former-Emperor Toba. Shortly thereafter, Emperor Go-Shirakawa is said to have acceded to the throne (‘‘sokui’’). [Titsingh, p. 189; Brown, p. 326; 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.] ]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
* 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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