was a after ''
Reiki'' and before ''
Jinki.'' This period spanned the years from November 717 through February 724. The reigning empress was .
Change of era
* 717 : The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in ''Reiki'' 3, on the 17th day of the 11th month of 717.
Events of the ''Yōrō'' era
* 717 (''Yōrō 1, 3rd month''): The ''sadaijin''
Isonokami no Maro
was a Japanese statesman of the Asuka period and early Nara period His family name was Mononobe no Muraji, later Mononobe no Ason and Isonokami no Ason. He attained the court rank of and ''sadaijin'', and posthumously .
In 672 Maro supported ...
died at age 78.
* 717 (''Yōrō 1, 9th month''): Empress Genshō traveled through
Ōmi Province where she was met by the lords of the
San'indō, the
San'yōdō and the
Nankaidō; and she was entertained with singing and dancing. From there, she traveled to
Mino Province where the lords of the
Tōkaidō,
Tōsandō and
Hokurikudō
is a Japanese geographical term. It means both an ancient division of the country and the main road running through the old Japanese geographical region.Nussbaum, "''Hokurikudō''" in Both were situated along the northwestern edge of Honshū. ...
who rendered similar honors and entertainments.
* 718 (''Yōrō 2''): Revisions and commentaries on the
Taihō Code are issued; and these changes are collectively known as the .
* 721 (''Yōrō 5, 5th month''): The newly completed ''
Nihon Shoki'' in 30 volumes was offered to the Empress.
[Titsingh]
p. 66.
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* 721 (''Yōrō 5, 5th month''): The ''udaijin'' Fujiwara no Fuhito died at age 62.[Titsingh]
p. 67.
/ref>
* 721 (''Yōrō 5, 5th month''): The former- Empress Genmei died at age 61.
Notes
References
* Asakawa, Kan'ichi. (1903)
''The Early Institutional Life of Japan''.
Tokyo: Shueisha
OCLC 4427686 ''see'' online, multi-formatted, full-text book at openlibrary.org
* 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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