- Jingo-keiun
. [Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). "Annales des empereurs du Japon," pp. 78-81; Brown, Delmer "et al." (1979). "Gukanshō," pp. 274-276; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). "Jinnō Shōtōki." p. 143-147.]
Change of era
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767 : The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in "Tenpyō-jingo" 3, on the 18th day of the 8th month of 767. [Brown, p. 276.] .Events of the "Jingo-keiun" era
* "
Jingo-keiun 3", on the 4th day of the 8th month (669 ): In the 5th year of Shōtoku"-tennō"'s reign (称徳天皇5年), the empress died; and she designated Senior Counselor Prince Shirakabe as her heir. [Brown, pp. 276-277.]
* "Jingo-keiun 3", on the 4th day of the 8th month (770 ): The succession (‘‘senso’’) was received by a 62-year-old grandson ofEmperor Tenji . [Brown, p. 276; Varley, p. 44, 148. [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.] ]
* "Jingo-keiun 3", on the 1st day of the 10th month (770 ): Emperor Kōnin was is said to have acceded to the throne (‘‘sokui’’) in a formal ceremony;and thenengō was changed to "Hōki" on the very same day. [Titsingh, p. 81; Brown, p. 277; Varley, p. 44, 148.]References
* Brown, Delmer M. and Ichirō Ishida, eds. (1979). [
Jien , 1221] , "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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