- Jinki (era)
. [Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). "Annales des empereurs du Japon," p. 66-73; Brown, Delmer "et al." (1979). "Gukanshō," pp. 272-273; Varley, H. Paul. "Jinnō Shōtōki," pp. 141-143.]
Change of era
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724 : The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in "Yōrō" 8, on the 4th day of the 2nd month of 724. [Brown, p. 273.]Events of the "Yōrō" era
* "Jinki 4" (
727 ): The emperor sent commissioners into all the provinces to look into examine the administrations of the governors and the the conduct of all public functionaries.Titsingh, p. 68.]
* "Jinki 5" (724 ): An ambassador from Korea was received in court. [see above] ]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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