was a after ''
Kenkyū
was a after '' Bunji'' and before ''Shōji.'' This period spanned the years from April 1190 through April 1199. The reigning emperor was .
Change of era
* 1190 : The new era name was created to mark an event or a number of events. The previou ...
'' and before ''
Kennin''. This period spanned the years from April 1199 through February 1201. The reigning emperor was .
Change of era
* 1199 : 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 ''Kenkyū'' 10, on the 27th day of the 4th month of 1199.
Events of the ''Shōji'' era
* January 29, 1199 (''Shōji 2, 12th day of the 2nd month''):
Oyama Tomomasa was appointed to 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 ...
post of
Harima Province
or Banshū (播州) was a province of Japan in the part of Honshū that is the southwestern part of present-day Hyōgo Prefecture. Harima bordered on Tajima, Tanba, Settsu, Bizen, and Mimasaka Provinces. Its capital was Himeji.
During the ...
and governor of
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, mov ...
.
* 1200 (''Shōji 2, 10th month''):
Hōjō Tokimasa
was a Japanese samurai lord who was the first ''shikken'' (regent) of the Kamakura shogunate and head of the Hōjō clan. He was ''shikken'' from 1203 until his abdication in 1205, and Protector of Kyoto from 1185 to 1186.
Background
The Hōj ...
was created daimyō of
Ōmi Province.
* 1201 (''Shōji 3'',
New Year's Day
New Year's Day is a festival observed in most of the world on 1 January, the first day of the year in the modern Gregorian calendar. 1 January is also New Year's Day on the Julian calendar, but this is not the same day as the Gregorian one. Wh ...
): Beginning of the
Kennin Rebellion.
Notes
References
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University of California Press
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.
OCLC 5145872* Kitagawa, Hiroshi and Bruce T. Tsuchida, eds. (1975). ''
The Tale of the Heike''. Tokyo:
University of Tokyo Press
The is a university press affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan. It was founded in 1951, following the post-World War II reorganization of the university.
Honors
* Japan Foundation: Special Prize, 1990.
Location
The headquarters of t ...
. ; ; ;
OCLC 193064639* Mass, Jeffrey. (1976) ''The Kamakura Bakufu: A Study in Documents''. Stanford:
Stanford University Press
Stanford University Press (SUP) is the publishing house of Stanford University. It is one of the oldest academic presses in the United States and the first university press to be established on the West Coast. It was among the presses officially ...
.
OCLC 246494466* Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005)
''Japan encyclopedia''.Cambridge:
Harvard University Press
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.
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:
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.
OCLC 6042764
External links
National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" – historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection
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Japanese eras
1190s in Japan
1200s in Japan