, also known as Kyōun, was a following ''
Taihō'' and preceding ''
Wadō''. The period spanned the years from May 704 through January 708. The reigning emperors were and .
Change of era
* 704 : The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in ''Taihō'' 4, on the 7th day of the 5th month of 704.
[Brown, p. 271.]
Events of the ''Keiun'' era
* 707 (''Keiun 4''): Emperor Monmu dies, but his son and heir was deemed too young to receive the succession (''senso''). Instead, the mother of the heir formally accedes to the throne (''sokui'') as
Empress Gemmei until her son would grow mature enough to accept ''senso'' and ''sokui''.
[Varley, H. Paul. (1980). ''Jinnō Shōtōki'', p. 44; a distinct act of ''senso'' is unrecognized prior to Emperor Tenji; and all sovereigns except Jitō, Yōzei, ]Go-Toba
was the 82nd emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His reign spanned the years from 1183 through 1198.
This 12th-century sovereign was named after Emperor Toba, and ''go-'' (後), translates literally as "later"; an ...
, and Fushimi have ''senso'' and ''sokui'' in the same year until the reign of Emperor Go-Murakami.
* 18 July 707 (''Keiun 4, 15th day of the 6th month''): Genmei is enthroned at the age of 48.
* 707 (''Keiun 4''): Deposits of copper was reported to have been found in
Musashi Province
was a province of Japan, which today comprises Tokyo Metropolis, most of Saitama Prefecture and part of Kanagawa Prefecture. It was sometimes called . The province encompassed Kawasaki and Yokohama. Musashi bordered on Kai, Kōzuke, Sagami, S ...
in the region which includes modern day Tokyo.
[Titsingh]
p. 63.
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* 708 (''Keiun 5''):, The era name was about to be changed to mark the accession of Empress Genmei; but the choice of ''Wadō'' as the new '' nengō'' for this new reign became a way to mark the welcome discovery of copper in the Chichibu District of what is now Saitama Prefecture
is a landlocked prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Saitama Prefecture has a population of 7,338,536 (1 January 2020) and has a geographic area of 3,797 km2 (1,466 sq mi). Saitama Prefecture borders Tochigi Prefecture ...
.
Notes
References
* 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.
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.
OCLC 6042764
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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