was a after ''
Ōhō
was a after ''Eiryaku'' and before ''Chōkan.'' This period spanned the years from September 1161 through March 1163. The reigning emperor was .
Change of era
* January 28, 1161 : The new era name was created to mark an event or a number of ...
'' and before ''
Eiman
was a after ''Chōkan'' and before ''Nin'an.'' This period spanned the years from June 1165 through August 1166. The reigning emperor was .
Change of era
* February 13, 1165 : The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. T ...
.'' This period spanned the years from March 1163 through June 1165. The reigning emperors were and .
[Titsingh, Isaac. (1834)]
''Annales des empereurs du Japon'', pp. 193
195; Brown, Delmer ''et al.'' (1979). ''Gukanshō'', pp. 329-330; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). ''Jinnō Shōtōki.'' p. 212.
Change of era
* February 5, 1163 : The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in ''Ōhō'' 3, on the 29th day of the 3rd month.
[Brown, p. 328.]
Events of the ''Chōkan'' era
* 1163 (''Chōkan 1, 1st month''):
Taira no Shigemori
was the eldest regent of the Taira clan patriarch, Taira no Kiyomori. He supported his father in the Heiji Rebellion. He died two years before his father. His son, Taira no Koremori, became a monk in 1184, and drowned himself. Oda Nobunaga cl ...
(1138–1179) was promoted to the second rank of the 3rd class in the court hierarchy.
[Titsingh]
p. 193.
/ref>
* 1163 (''Chōkan 2, 2nd month''): A large congregation of Buddhist priest
A ''bhikkhu'' (Pali: भिक्खु, Sanskrit: भिक्षु, ''bhikṣu'') is an ordained male in Buddhist monasticism. Male and female monastics ("nun", ''bhikkhunī'', Sanskrit ''bhikṣuṇī'') are members of the Sangha (Buddhist ...
s came together at the Tōdai-ji
is a Buddhist temple complex that was once one of the powerful Nanto Shichi Daiji, Seven Great Temples, located in the city of Nara, Nara, Nara, Japan. Though it was originally founded in the year 738 CE, Tōdai-ji was not opened until the year ...
and Kōfuku-ji
is a Buddhist temple that was once one of the powerful Seven Great Temples in the city of Nara, Japan. The temple is the national headquarters of the Hossō school.
History
Kōfuku-ji has its origin as a temple that was established in 669 b ...
temples to recite prayers for the prosperity of the Imperial Family
A royal family is the immediate family of kings/queens, emirs/emiras, sultans/ sultanas, or raja/rani and sometimes their extended family. The term imperial family appropriately describes the family of an emperor or empress, and the term pap ...
.Emperor Sutoku
was the 75th emperor of Japan, Imperial Household Agency (''Kunaichō'') 崇徳天皇 (75)/ref> according to the traditional order of succession.
Sutoku's reign spanned the years from 1123 through 1142.
Genealogy
Before his ascension to the Chry ...
died at the age of 46.
See also
Notes
References
* Brown, Delmer M. and Ichirō Ishida, eds. (1979)
''Gukanshō: The Future and the Past.''
Berkeley: University of California Press
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.
OCLC 251325323
* Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005)
''Japan encyclopedia.''
Cambridge: Harvard University Press
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.
OCLC 58053128
* Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). ''Nihon Odai Ichiran
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''; ou
''Annales des empereurs du Japon.''
Paris: Royal Asiatic Society
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, 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: Columbia University Press
Columbia University Press is a university press based in New York City, and affiliated with Columbia University. It is currently directed by Jennifer Crewe (2014–present) and publishes titles in the humanities and sciences, including the fiel ...
.
OCLC 6042764
External links
* National Diet Library
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, "The Japanese Calendar
-- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection
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