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Eiryaku was a after '' Heiji'' and before '' Ōhō.'' This period spanned the years from January 1160 through September 1161. The reigning emperor was . Change of era * February 9, 1160 : The new era name was created to mark an event or a number of e ...

'' and before ''

Chōkan was a after '' Ōhō'' and before '' Eiman.'' This period spanned the years from March 1163 through June 1165. The reigning emperors were and .Titsingh, Isaac. (1834) ''Annales des empereurs du Japon'', pp. 193195; Brown, Delmer ''et al.'' ( ...

.'' This period spanned the years from September 1161 through March 1163. The reigning emperor was .

Change of era

* January 28, 1161 : 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 ''Eiryaku'' 2, on the 4th day of the 9th month of 1161.Brown, p. 328.

Events of the ''Ōhō'' era

* 1161 (''Ōhō 1, 2nd month''): The emperor visited

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and other shrines which were situated just outside the boundaries of the capital city.Titsingh
p. 191.
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died.

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:

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.
OCLC 58053128
* Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). ''

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''; 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

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