- Reiki (era)
. [Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). "Annales des empereurs du Japon," pp. 65-67; Brown, Delmer "et al." (1979). "Gukanshō," pp. 271-272; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). "Jinnō Shōtōki." pp. 140-141.]
Change of era
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715 : The new era name was created to mark the beginning of the reign of Empress Genshō. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in "Wadō" 8, on the 3rd day of the 9th monthof 715. [Brown, p. 272.]Events of the "Reiki" era
* "Reiki 1" (
715 ): Empress Gemmei abdicates; and her daughter receives the succession (‘‘senso’’). Shortly thereafter, Empress Genshō formally accedes to the throne (‘‘sokui’’). Emperor Mommu, Genshō's father, had died in 707, but his son (her brother) was deemed too young to receive the succession ("senso"); and instead, the mother of the male heir formally acceded to the throne ("sokui") as Empress Gemmei until her son would grow mature enough to accept "senso" and "sokui". The future Emperor Shōmu's sister undertook a similar responsibility as Empress Genshō. [Varley, H. Paul. (1980). "Jinnō Shōtōki," 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 M. and Ichirō Ishida, eds. (1979). [
Jien , c. 1220] , "Gukanshō (The Future and the Past, a translation and study of the Gukanshō, an interpretative history of Japan written in 1219)." 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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