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was a after '' Jōan'' and before '' Jishō.'' This period spanned the years from July 1175 through August 1177. The reigning emperor was .


Change of era

* 1175 : The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in ''Jōan'' 5, on the 28th day of the 7th month of 1175.


Events of the ''Angen'' era

* 1175 (''Angen 1, 22nd day of the 2nd month''): the '' naidaijin'' Minamoto no Masamichi died at age 58. * 1175 (''Angen 1, 11th month''): Fujiwara no Moronaga was named ''naidaijin''. * 1176 (''Angen 2, 3rd month''): Emperor Takakura visited his father, former- Emperor Go-Shirakawa, on the occasion of his 50th birthday. * 1176 (''Angen 2, 19th day of the 7th month''): The former- Emperor Rokujō died at the age of 13; and also in this same month, Takakura's mother, Empress Kenshun-mon In (formerly Taira Sigeko) died. * 1176 (''Angen 2, 7th month''): Fujiwara no Morotaka, daimyō of Kaga, was in a dispute with the priests of Mt. Hiei; and his younger brother, Fujiwara no Morotsune, set fire to some of the temple buildings. The priests complained to the emperor, demanding that Morotaka be exiled and the Morotsune should be put in prison. However, because Fujiwara no Seiko, the father of these two brothers, was a great friend of Go-Shirakawa, the affair was allowed to lie dormant. * May 27, 1177 (''Angen 3, 28th day, 4th month''): A fire burned the university structure to ashes during The Great Fire of Angen.Minakata Kumagusu and F. Victor Dickens. (1905). "A Japanese Thoreau of the Twelfth Century,"


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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 an academic publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University. It is a member of the Association of University Presses. Its director since 2017 is George Andreou. The pres ...
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OCLC 58053128
* Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). '' Nihon Odai Ichiran''; 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 New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's la ...
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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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