was a

Japanese era name The , also known as , is the first of the two elements that identify years in the Japanese era calendar scheme. The second element is a number which indicates the year number within the era (with the first year being ""), followed by the literal ...

(年号, ''nengō'', lit. year name) of the Northern Court during the Era of Northern and Southern Courts after ''Kōan'' and before ''Ōan''. This period spanned the years from September 1362 through February 1368. The emperor in Kyoto was . Go-Kōgon's

Southern Court The were a set of four emperors (Emperor Go-Daigo and his line) whose claims to sovereignty during the Nanboku-chō period spanning from 1336 through 1392 were usurped by the Northern Court. This period ended with the Southern Court definitively ...

rival in Yoshino during this time-frame was .

Nanboku-chō overview

During the Meiji period, an Imperial decree dated March 3, 1911 established that the legitimate reigning monarchs of this period were the direct descendants of Emperor Go-Daigo through Emperor Go-Murakami, whose had been established in exile in Yoshino, near Nara.Thomas, Julia Adeney. (2001)
''Reconfiguring modernity: concepts of nature in Japanese political ideology'', p. 199 n57
citing Mehl, Margaret. (1997). ''History and the State in Nineteenth-Century Japan.'' p. 140-147. Until the end of the Edo period, the militarily superior pretender-Emperors supported by the Ashikaga shogunate had been mistakenly incorporated in Imperial chronologies despite the undisputed fact that the Imperial Regalia were not in their possession. This illegitimate had been established in Kyoto by Ashikaga Takauji.

Change of era

* 1362, also called : The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in ''Kōan'' 2. In this time frame, Shōhei (1346–1370) was a Southern Court equivalent ''nengō,''

Events of the Jōji era

* 1362 (''Jōji 1''): The era begins with Ashikaga Yoshiakira in control of Kyoto. * 1365 (''Jōji 4''): Emperor Go-Daigo's son, Prince Kaneyoshi (also known as Kanenaga) gains control of Kyūshū.Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982) ''Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron'', p.329. * 1367 (''Jōji 6''): Kantō Kubō

Ashikaga Motouji (1340–1367) was a warrior of the Nanboku-chō period. The fourth son of ''shōgun'' Ashikaga Takauji, he was the first of a dynasty of five ''Kantō kubō'', Kamakura-based representatives in the vital Kamakura-fu of Kyoto's Ashikaga regime. ...

dies; Yoshiakira falls ill and cedes his position to his son. * 1368 (''Jōji 7''): Yoshiakira's son, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, becomes the third shōgun of what comest to be known as the Muromachi period.Titsingh
p. 308.
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Notes

References

* Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982) ''Lessons from History: The

Tokushi Yoron The is an Edo period historical analysis of Japanese history written in 1712 by Arai Hakuseki (1657–1725). Hakuseki's innovative effort to understand and explain the history of Japan differs significantly from previous chronologies which were ...

.'' Brisbane: University of Queensland Press. * Mehl, Margaret. (1997). ''History and the State in Nineteenth-Century Japan.'' New York:

St Martin's Press St. Martin's Press is a book publisher headquartered in Manhattan, New York City, in the Equitable Building. St. Martin's Press is considered one of the largest English-language publishers, bringing to the public some 700 titles a year under si ...

.
OCLC 419870136
* Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). ''Japan Encyclopedia.'' Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
OCLC 48943301
* Thomas, Julia Adeney. (2001). ''Reconfiguring Modernity: Concepts of Nature in Japanese Political Ideology.'' Berkeley: University of California Press. ; * Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). ''

Nihon Odai Ichiran Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

''; 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 Japanese Calendar
-- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection
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