was a coming after ''
Keichō'' and before ''
Kan'ei.'' This period spanned the years from July 1615 to February 1624. The reigning emperor was .
Change of era
* 1615 : The era name was changed to mark the enthronement of
Go-Mizunuoo and because of disasters such as the , or more commonly, . The old era ended and a new one commenced in ''Keichō'' 20.
The siege of Osaka was a series of battles undertaken by the
Tokugawa shogunate against the
Toyotomi clan, and ending in that clan's destruction. Divided into two stages (the "Winter Campaign" and the "Summer Campaign"), and lasting from 1614 through 1615, the siege put an end to the last major armed opposition to the establishment of an enduring Tokugawa shogunate. The end of this period of fighting is also sometimes called the because the
era name was changed from ''
Keichō'' to ''Genna'' immediately following its ultimate resolution.
By order of
Tokugawa Ieyasu, the era name of
Emperor Xianzong of Tang China was adopted.
Events of the ''Genna'' era
* 1615 (''Genna 1''):
Tokugawa Ieyasu and his son, Shōgun Hidetada, marched again to Osaka Castle, which was captured and burned; but Hideyori managed to flee to
Satsuma Satsuma may refer to:
* Satsuma (fruit), a citrus fruit
* ''Satsuma'' (gastropod), a genus of land snails
Places Japan
* Satsuma, Kagoshima, a Japanese town
* Satsuma District, Kagoshima, a district in Kagoshima Prefecture
* Satsuma Domain, a sout ...
where he had prepared a refuge in advance.
[Titsingh]
p. 410.
/ref>
* September 1, 1615 (''Genna 1, 9th day of the 7th month''): Ieyasu pulled down Hōkoku-jinja.[Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1956). ''Kyoto: the Old Capital of Japan, 794-1869'', p. 317.]
* September 20, 1615 (''Genna 1, 28th day of the 7th month''): Ieyasu promulgated the ''Genna-rei'' in 17 clauses.Emperor Go-Yōzei
was the 107th Emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. Go-Yōzei's reign spanned the years 1586 through to his abdication in 1611, corresponding to the transition between the Azuchi–Momoyama period and the Edo period ...
died. He is buried at Nikkō.[Ponsonby-Fane, p. 317; Titsingh]
p. 410.
/ref>
* 1620 (''Genna 6''): There were severe fires in Mikayo on the 30th day of the 2nd month and on the 4th day of the 3rd month.
Notes
References
* Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). ''Japan Encyclopedia''. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
OCLC 48943301
* Ponsonby-Fane, Richard Arthur Brabazon. (1956). ''Kyoto: The Old Capital of Japan, 794–1869''. Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society.
* Screech, Timon. (2006)
''Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822.''
London: RoutledgeCurzon
Routledge () is a British multinational publisher. It was founded in 1836 by George Routledge, and specialises in providing academic books, journals and online resources in the fields of the humanities, behavioural science, education, law, and ...
.
OCLC 65177072
* 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
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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