was a after ''
Kennin'' and before ''
Ken'ei
was a after ''Genkyū'' and before ''Jōgen (Kamakura period), Jōgen.'' This period spanned the years from April 1206 through October 1207. The reigning emperor was .
Change of era
* 1206 : The new era name was created to mark an event or a n ...
''. This period spanned the years from February 1204 through April 1206. The reigning emperor was .
Change of era
* 1204 : 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 ''Kennin'' 4, on the 20th day of the 2nd month of 1204.
[Brown, p. 340.]
Events of the ''Genkyū'' era
* 1204 (''Genkyū 1, 10th month''):
Minamoto no Sanetomo ordered Hōjō Masanori, Hōjō Tomomichi and
Hatakeyama Shigeyasu
was a Kamakura-period warrior who fell victim to political intrigue in 1205.
Grave and monument
According to tradition, his grave can be found under a ''tabu no ki'' tree near the Yuigahama end of Wakamiya Ōji Avenue in Kamakura, Kanagawa P ...
to travel to
Heian-kyō
Heian-kyō was one of several former names for the city now known as Kyoto. It was the official capital of Japan for over one thousand years, from 794 to 1868 with an interruption in 1180.
Emperor Kanmu established it as the capital in 794, mov ...
. These three were charged with escorting the daughter of '' dainagon'' Fujiwara-no Noboukiyo to Kamakura where she would marry Sanetomo.
[Titsingh, p. 227.]
* 1204 (''Genkyū 1, 12th month''): Two of Sanetomo's emissaries returned to Kanto with his bride-to-be; but Shigeyasu remained in Heian-kyo where he died.
* 1205 (''Genkyū 2, 3rd month''): Kyoto and the provinces of the
Kinai were devastated by a terrible storm; and at the time, the disaster was deemed to have been caused by the Buddhist priest
Eisai after he brought the
Zen school of Buddhism to the capital. Eisai was chased out of Kyoto, but in time, he was permitted to return.
References
;Sources
* Brown, Delmer and Ichiro Ishida. (1979). ''The Future and the Past: a translation and study of the 'Gukanshō', an interpretative history of Japan written in 1219''. Berkeley:
University of California Press
The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing. It was founded in 1893 to publish scholarly and scientific works by faculty ...
.
OCLC 5145872* Kitagawa, Hiroshi and Bruce T. Tsuchida, eds. (1975). ''
The Tale of the Heike''. Tokyo:
University of Tokyo Press
The is a university press affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan. It was founded in 1951, following the post-World War II reorganization of the university.
Honors
* Japan Foundation: Special Prize, 1990.
Location
The headquarters of t ...
. ; ; ;
OCLC 193064639* Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005)
''Japan encyclopedia''.Cambridge:
Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing. It is a member of the Association of American University Presses. After the retirem ...
.
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:
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, "The Japanese Calendar
-- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection
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