- Hōki
nihongo|Hōki|宝亀 was a nihongo|Japanese era name|年号,|"nengō",|lit. "
year name" after "Jingo-keiun " and before "Ten'ō ." This period spanned the years from770 through781 . The reigning emperor was nihongo|Kōnin"-tennō"|光仁天皇. [Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). "Annales des empereurs du Japon," pp. 81-85; Brown, Delmer "et al." (1979). "Gukanshō," pp. 276-277; Varley, H. Paul. "Jinnō Shōtōki," pp. 147-148.]Change of era
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770 : The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in "Jingo-keiun " 4, on the 18th day of the 8th month of 770.Brown, p. 277.]Events of the "Hōki" era
* "
Hōki 1", on the 1st day of the 10th month (宝亀元年;770 ): The era name was changed to mark the beginning of Emperor Konin's reign. [see above] ]
* "Hōki 12", in the 4th month (781 ): The emperor abdicated in favor of his son, who would later come to be known as Emperor Kammu. Emperor Kōnin's reign had lasted for 11 years. [see above] ]
* "Hōki 12", in the 12th month (781 ): Kōnin died at the age of 73. [Brown, p. 277; Varley, p. 148.]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. (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 0-321-04940-4External 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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