was a after ''

Eikyō was a after ''Shōchō'' and before ''Kakitsu''. This period spanned the years from September 1429 through February 1441. The reigning emperor was . Change of era * 1429 : The era name was changed to mark the beginning of the reign of Emperor ...

'' and before ''

Bun'an was a after ''Kakitsu'' and before ''Hotoku.'' This period spanned the years from February 1444 through July 1449. The reigning emperor was . Change of era * 1444 : The era name was changed to mark an event or a number of events. The previous ...

''. This period spanned the years from February 1441 through February 1444. The reigning emperor was .

Change of era

* 1451 : The era name was changed to mark an event or a number of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in ''Eikyō'' 13.

Events of the ''Kakitsu'' era

* July 12, 1441 (''Kakitsu 1, 24th day of the 6th month''): ''

Shōgun , officially , was the title of the military dictators of Japan during most of the period spanning from 1185 to 1868. Nominally appointed by the Emperor, shoguns were usually the de facto rulers of the country, though during part of the Kamakur ...

Ashikaga Yoshinori was the sixth ''shōgun'' of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1429 to 1441 during the Muromachi period of Japan. Yoshinori was the son of the third ''shōgun'' Ashikaga Yoshimitsu. Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). His childhood name was Harutor ...

is murdered at age 48 by

Akamatsu Mitsusuke was a Japanese samurai of the Akamatsu clan during the Muromachi Period. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005) "''Kaikitsu-no-hen,''"''Japan encyclopedia,'' p. 456. Early life Mitsusuke was the son of Akamatusu Yoshinori. Assassin In 1441, Mi ...

who was upset that Akamatsu Sadaura was made leader of the Akamatsu clan; and shortly thereafter, Yoshinori's 8-year-old son,

Ashikaga Yoshikatsu was the seventh ''shōgun'' of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1442 to 1443 during the Muromachi period of Japan. Yoshikatsu was the son of 6th ''shōgun'' Ashikaga Yoshinori with his concubine, Hino Shigeko (1411–1463). His childhood ...

, was proclaimed as the new ''shōgun''. *July 12–28, 1441: A number of prominent nobles were also killed defending Shōgun Yoshinori directly through the fighting including Kyōgoku Takakazu, the

Shugo , commonly translated as “(military) governor,” “protector,” or “constable,” was a title given to certain officials in feudal Japan. They were each appointed by the ''shōgun'' to oversee one or more of the provinces of Japan. The pos ...

Yamashiro Province was a province of Japan, located in Kinai. It overlaps the southern part of modern Kyoto Prefecture on Honshū. Aliases include , the rare , and . It is classified as an upper province in the ''Engishiki''. Yamashiro Province included Kyoto its ...

and Ōuchi Mochiyo (1394-1441), the head of the

Ōuchi clan was one of the most powerful and important families in Western Japan during the reign of the Ashikaga shogunate in the 12th to 14th centuries. Their domains, ruled from the castle town of Yamaguchi, comprised six provinces at their height, and ...

. * 1441 (''Kakitsu 1, 9th month''): The murderers of Yoshinori kill themselves. * 1443 (''Kakitsu 3''): A Japanese-Korean diplomatic agreement (sometimes called the "

Kakitsu treaty The Gyehae Treaty was signed in 1443 ("gyehae" is the Korean name of the year in the sexagenary cycle) between the Joseon dynasty and Sō Sadamori as a means of controlling Japanese piracy and legitimizing trade between Tsushima island and three ...

") regularized an initial plan for mitigating the damage caused by pirates ('' wakō''). The bilateral agreement assigned the responsibility for monitoring ships from Japan en route to Korea. The

Sō clan were a Japanese clan claiming descent from Taira no Tomomori. Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon''; Papinot, (2003)"Toki," ''Nobiliare du Japon'', p. 56 retrieved 2013-5-10. The clan go ...

Tsushima han Tsushima may refer to: Places * Tsushima Island, part of Nagasaki Prefecture ** Tsushima, Nagasaki, a city in Nagasaki Prefecture (coterminous with Tsushima Island) ** Tsushima Province, a historical province, coterminous with modern Tsushima Subp ...

(

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) were given the right to license ships sailing west beyond Tsushima; and this also encompassed the opportunity to profit from whatever fees the Sō might charge. * August 16, 1443 (''Kakitsu 3, 21st day of the 7th month''): ''Shōgun'' Yoshikatsu died at the age of 10. He liked riding horses very much; but he was gravely injured in a fall from a horse. This was the cause of his death. He had been shōgun for only three years. His 8-year-old brother, Ashikaga Yoshinari, was then named ''shōgun''. * October 16, 1443 (''Kakitsu 3, 23rd day of the 9th month''): An armed group of rebels penetrated the palace defenses. A fire was started and one of the men sought to kill Go-Hanazono, but the emperor escaped. However, the intruders managed to steal the

Three Sacred Treasures The are the imperial regalia of Japan and consist of the sword , the mirror , and the jewel . They represent the three primary virtues: valour (the sword), wisdom (the mirror), and benevolence (the jewel).

– the mirror, the sword and the jewel. Later, a guard found the mirror and a priest found the sword, but the location of jewel was not known until the 8th month of ''

Bunnan Bunnan is a town in the Upper Hunter Shire in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia. It is located on Bunnan Road east of Merriwa about 270 kilometres north of Sydney, and is part of the Hunter (federal) and Upper Hunter The Up ...

gannen''.Titsingh
pp. 344
345.

Notes

References

* Hall, John Whitney. (1997). ''The Cambridge History of Japan: Early Modern Japan''. Cambridge:

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. ; * Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). ''Japan Encyclopedia''. Cambridge:

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.
OCLC 48943301
* 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

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, "The Japanese Calendar
– historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection
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