was a after ''
Angen'' and before ''
Yōwa''. This period spanned the years from August 1177 through July 1181. The reigning emperors were and .
Change of era
* 1177 : 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 ''Angen'' 3, on the 4th day of the 8th month of 1177.
Events of the ''Jishō'' era
* 1177 (''Jishō 1, 28th day of the 4th month''): A great fire in the capital was spread by high winds; and the palace was reduced to cinders.
* 1178 (''Jishō 2, 12th day of the 11th month''):
Emperor Takakura's consort, Tokuko, gives birth to an infant who will become
Emperor Antoku.
[Kitagawa, H. (1975). ''The Tale of the Heike'', p. 784.]
* 1180 (''Jishō 4, 21st day of the 2nd month''): Emperor Takakura abdicates.
* 1180 (''Jishō 4, 21st day of the 4th month''): In the 12th year of Takakura''-tennō''s reign (高倉天皇12年), the emperor was forced to abdicate; and the succession (''senso'') was received by his infant son, the grandson of Taira Kiyomori.
* 1180 (''Jishō 4, 22nd day of the 4th month''): Emperor Antoku's is said to have acceded to the throne (''sokui'') on the day of his coronation ceremony.
* 1180 (''Jishō 4, 2nd day of the 6th month''): Former-
Emperor Go-Shirakawa
was the 77th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His de jure reign spanned the years from 1155 through 1158, though arguably he effectively maintained imperial power for almost thirty-seven years through the ''in ...
-in, former-emperor Takakura-in and Emperor Antoku leave
Kyoto
Kyoto ( or ; Japanese language, Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan's largest and most populous island of Honshu. , the city had a population of 1.46 million, making it t ...
for Fukuhara, which is near modern-day
Kōbe
Kobe ( ; , ), officially , is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. With a population of around 1.5 million, Kobe is Japan's seventh-largest city and the third-largest port city after Tokyo and Yokohama. It is located in the Kansai re ...
,
Hyōgo.
* 1180 (''Jishō 4, 26th day of the 11th month''): The capital is moved back to Kyoto from Fukuhara.
* 1180 (''Jishō 4''): A devastating
whirlwind
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causes havoc in
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, mo ...
, the capital.
[Kamo no Chōmei. (1212). ''Hōjōki''.]
* 1181 (''Jishō 5, 14th day of the 1st month''): Emperor Takakura dies.
* 1181 (''Jishō 5, 25th day of the 4th month''):
Battle of Sunomata-gawa
References
General
* Brown, Delmer M. and Ichirō Ishida, eds. (1979)
''Gukanshō: The Future and the Past''.Berkeley: University of California Press.
OCLC 251325323* Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005)
''Japan encyclopedia''.Cambridge:
Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press (HUP) is an academic publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University. It is a member of the Association of University Presses. Its director since 2017 is George Andreou.
The pres ...
.
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
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New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's la ...
.
OCLC 6042764
External links
* National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar
-- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection
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