was a after '' Kōwa'' and before ''

Kajō , also romanized as Kashō, was a after ''Chōji'' and before ''Tennin (era), Tennin.'' This period spanned the years from April 1106 through August 1108. The reigning emperors were and . Change of era * February 6, 1106 : The new era name w ...

.'' This period spanned the years from February 1104 through April 1106. The reigning emperor was .

Change of era

* January 30, 1104 : The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in ''Kōwa'' 6, on the 10th day of the 2nd month.Brown, p. 319.

Events of the ''Chōji'' era

* 1104 (''Chōji 1, 3rd month''): The emperor visited

Sonshō-ji is a Tendai Buddhist temple in northeastern Kyoto, Japan, established by Emperor Horikawa in fulfillment of a sacred vow. It is known as one of the ,Adophson, Mikael S. (2000) ''The Gates of Power: Monks, Courtiers, and Warriors in Premodern Japan ...

Titsingh
p. 177.
/ref> in northeastern Kyoto. * 1105 (''Chōji 2, 6th month''): A red snow was reported as having fallen in a number of Japanese provinces.

Notes

References

* Brown, Delmer M. and Ichirō Ishida, eds. (1979)
''Gukanshō: The Future and the Past''.
Berkeley: University of California Press.
OCLC 251325323
* Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005)
''Japan encyclopedia''.
Cambridge:

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.
OCLC 58053128
* Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). ''

Nihon Ōdai Ichiran , ', is a 17th-century chronicle of the serial reigns of Japanese emperors with brief notes about some of the noteworthy events or other happenings. According to the 1871 edition of the ''American Cyclopaedia'', the 1834 French translation of ...

''; ou
''Annales des empereurs du Japon''.
Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland
OCLC 5850691
* Varley, H. Paul. (1980). ''A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa''. New York:

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.
OCLC 6042764

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