, also romanized as Kyū-an, was a after ''
Ten'yō
was a after '' Kōji'' and before '' Kyūan.'' This period spanned the year from February 1144 through July 1145. The reigning emperor was .Titsingh, Isaac. (1834) ''Annales des emepereurs du japon'', pp. 186188; Brown, Delmer ''et al.'' (1979 ...
'' and before ''
Ninpei
, also romanized as Nimpyō, was a after ''Kyūan'' and before ''Kyūju.'' This period spanned the years from January 1151 through October 1154. The reigning emperor was .
Change of era
* January 20, 1151 : The new era name was created to mark ...
.'' This period spanned the years from July 1145 through January 1151. The reigning emperor was .
Change of Era
* January 25, 1145 : The new era name was created because a comet was sighted in the sky in the 7th month of ''Ten'yō gannen''.
[Titsingh]
p. 186.
/ref> One era ended and a new one commenced in ''Ten'yō'' 1, on the 22nd day of the 7th month of 1145.
Events
* 1145 (''Kyūan 1, 8th month''): The mother of former-Emperor Sutoku
was the 75th emperor of Japan, Imperial Household Agency (''Kunaichō'') 崇徳天皇 (75)/ref> according to the traditional order of succession.
Sutoku's reign spanned the years from 1123 through 1142.
Genealogy
Before his ascension to the Chry ...
, Taiken-mon In, died.Emperor Konoe
was the 76th emperor of Japan, Imperial Household Agency (''Kunaichō'') 近衛天皇 (76)/ref> according to the traditional order of succession.
Konoe's reign spanned the years from 1142 through 1155.
Genealogy
Before his ascension to the Chr ...
visited Emperor Toba
was the 74th Emperor of Japan, Imperial Household Agency (''Kunaichō'') 鳥羽天皇 (74)/ref> according to the traditional order of succession.
Toba's reign spanned the years from 1107 through 1123.
Genealogy
Before his ascension to the Chr ...
-no''-Hōō''.Fujiwara no Tadamichi
was the eldest son of the Japanese regent ('' Kampaku'') Fujiwara no Tadazane and a member of the politically powerful Fujiwara clan. He was the father of Fujiwara no Kanefusa and Jien.
In the Hōgen Rebellion of 1156, Tadamichi sided with the ...
(the regent) on his 58th birthday.[Titsingh]
p. 186
this event was important because, in each sexagenary cycle
The sexagenary cycle, also known as the Stems-and-Branches or ganzhi ( zh, 干支, gānzhī), is a cycle of sixty terms, each corresponding to one year, thus a total of sixty years for one cycle, historically used for recording time in China and t ...
, the first and the fifty-eighth years were considered to be auspicious according to Chinese astrological principles.
* 1148 (''Kyūan 4, 6th month, 26th day''): The imperial palace was consumed by flames.[Titsingh]
p. 187.
/ref>
* 1150 (''Kyūan 6, 1st month''): Konoe assumed the role of a mature adult; and he married Fujiwara-no Tokoku, who had been raised by ''sadaijin
The ''Kenkyusha's New Japanese-English Dictionary'', Kenkyusha Limited, was a government position in Japan in the late Nara and Heian periods. The position was consolidated in the Taihō Code of 702.
The Asuka Kiyomihara Code of 689 marks the ini ...
'' Fujiwara-no Yorinaga. Tokoku was the daughter of ''dainagon
was a counselor of the first rank in the Imperial court of Japan. The role dates from the 7th century.
This advisory position remained a part of the Imperial court from the 8th century until the Meiji period in the 19th century.Nussbaum, "Dainag ...
'' Taira-no Kiyomori. This bride became '' kōgū'' (first empress).kugyō
is the collective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the Emperor of Japan in pre- Meiji eras. The term generally referred to the and court officials and denoted a court rank between First Rank and Third Rank un ...
'', especially between Tadamichi and Yorinaga.Ashikaga clan
The was a prominent Japanese samurai clan which established the Muromachi shogunate and ruled Japan from roughly 1333 to 1573.
The Ashikaga were descended from a branch of the Minamoto clan, deriving originally from the town of Ashikaga in ...
in Shimotsuke Province
was a Provinces of Japan, province of Japan in the area of Japan that is today Tochigi Prefecture.Louis-Frédéric, Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''SHimotsuke''" in . Shimotsuke was bordered by Kōzuke Province, Kōzuke, Hitachi Province, ...
.
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
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 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
* 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 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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