is a after ''
Bunkyū
was a after ''Man'en'' and before '' Genji''. This period spanned the years from March 1861 through March 1864. The reigning emperor was .
Change of era
* March 29, 1861 (''Man'en 2/Bunkyū 1, 19th day of the 2nd month'') : The new era name of ...
'' and before ''
Keiō
was a after '' Genji'' and before '' Meiji''. The period spanned the years from May 1865 to October 1868. The reigning emperors were and .
Change of era
* May 1, 1865 (''Genji 2/Keiō 1, 7th day of the 4th month'') : The new era name of ''K ...
.'' This period spanned only slightly more than a single year from March 1864 through April 1865. The reigning emperor was .
The new era name was derived from the ''
I Ching
The ''I Ching'' or ''Yi Jing'' (, ), usually translated ''Book of Changes'' or ''Classic of Changes'', is an ancient Chinese divination text that is among the oldest of the Chinese classics. Originally a divination manual in the Western Zho ...
''.
Change of era
* March 27, 1864 (''Bunkyū 4/Genji 1, 20th day of the 2nd month'') : The new era name of Genji (meaning "original rule") was created to mark the beginning of a new 60-year cycle of the
Chinese zodiac
The Chinese zodiac is a traditional classification scheme based on the lunar calendar that assigns an animal and its reputed attributes to each year in a repeating twelve-year cycle. Originating from China, the zodiac and its variations remain ...
. The old era ended and a new one commenced in ''Bunkyū'' 4.
Events
* July 8, 1864 (''Genji 1, fifth day of the sixth month''): The
Ikedaya Jiken
The , also known as the Ikedaya affair or Ikedaya riot, was an armed encounter between the Shishi (organization), ''shishi'' which included masterless samurai (''rōnin'') formally employed by the Chōshū Domain, Chōshū, Tosa Domain, Tosa ...
, also known as the Ikedaya Affair or Ikedaya Incident, developed at the Ikedaya ryokan in Kyoto.
* August 12, 1864 (''Genji 1, 11th day of the 7th month''):
Sakuma Shōzan
sometimes called Sakuma Zōzan, was a Japanese politician and scholar of the Edo period.
Biography
Born Sakuma Kunitada, he was the son of a samurai and scholar and his wife , and a native of (or Shinano Province) in present day's Nagano Pref ...
is assassinated at age 53. He had traveled from Edo to Kyoto on orders of the shogunate. He was in favor of steps which would lead to an opening of the country, but his voice was stilled by death at the hands of a ''
sonno joi'' supporter.
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Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures
* September 5–6, 1864 (''Genji 1, 5th–6th day of the eighth month''):
Bombardment of Shimonoseki
The refers to a series of military engagements in 1863 and 1864, fought to control the Shimonoseki Straits of Japan by joint naval forces from Great Britain, France, the Netherlands and the United States, against the Japanese feudal domain of ...
See also
*
Genji Kaku
Genji Kaku/Yuen-chih Kuo (Kaku Genji/Kuo Yuen-chih, 郭 源治, born October 4, 1956), is a Taiwanese former professional baseball player from Taitung, Taiwan. His family comes from the Taiwanese aborigines. He obtained Japanese citizenship in ...
*
Genji clan
was one of the surnames bestowed by the Emperors of Japan upon members of the imperial family who were excluded from the line of succession and demoted into the ranks of the nobility from 1192 to 1333. The practice was most prevalent during the ...
*
Genji Monogatari
*
Genji Tsuushin Agedama Genji may refer to:
*Genji (era), an era in Japanese history (1864–65)
*Hikaru Genji, the main character of the 11th-century Japanese text ''The Tale of Genji''
*Genji, an alternative name for the Minamoto clan
*Genji (woreda), a district of the ...
*
Genji Monogatari Sennenki
is a Japanese anime adaptation of '' The Tale of Genji''. Originally, it was meant to be an anime adaptation of Waki Yamato's '' The Tale of Genji'' manga, but the director decided to make it a direct adaptation of the original tale. The chara ...
Notes
References
* Armstrong, Robert Cornell. (1914)
''Light from the East Or Studies in Japanese Confucianism.''Toronto:
University of Toronto Press
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The press originally printed only examination books and the university calen ...
OCLC 220491442* Griffis, William E. (1915)
''The Mikado: Institution and Person.'' Princeton:
Princeton University Press
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The press was founded by Whitney Darrow, with the financial su ...
OCLC 413118* Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). ''Japan Encyclopedia.'' Cambridge:
Harvard University Press
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.
OCLC 48943301
External links
* National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar
-- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection
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