was a after ''
Tengen'' and before ''
Kanna.'' This period spanned the years from April 983 through April 985. The reigning emperors were and .
Change of era
* February 16, 983 ]: The new era name was created to mark an event or a number of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in ''Tengen'' 6, on the 15th day of the 4th month of 983.
Events of the ''Eikan'' era
* October 6, 983 (''Eikan 1, 27th day of the 8th month''): In the 15th year of Emperor En'yu's reign (円融天皇15年), he abdicated; and the succession (''senso'') was received by a nephew. Shortly thereafter, Emperor Kazan is said to have acceded to the throne (''sokui'').
* September/October 983 (''Eikan 1, 8th month''): Chōnen, the Buddhist monk of the
Tendai, Tendai school embarked on a voyage to China accompanied by 5 or 6 disciples.
[Iwao, Seiichi ''et al.'' (2002). ]
Notes
References
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* 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: Columbia University Press
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External links
* National Diet Library
The is the national library of Japan and among the largest libraries in the world. It was established in 1948 for the purpose of assisting members of the in researching matters of public policy. The library is similar in purpose and scope to ...
, "The Japanese Calendar
-- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection
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