was a after ''
Jōryaku'' and before ''
Ōtoku.'' This period spanned the years from February 1081 through April 1084. The reigning emperor was .
Change of Era
* February 12, 1081 : The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in ''Jōryaku'' 5, on the 10th day of the 2nd month of 1081.
[Brown, p. 316.]
Events of the ''Eihō'' Era
* May 26, 1081 (''Eihō 1, 15th day of the 4th month''): The Buddhist Temple of
Miidera was set on fire by the monks of a rival sect on
Mount Hiei
is a mountain to the northeast of Kyoto, lying on the border between the Kyoto and Shiga Prefectures, Japan.
The temple of Enryaku-ji, the first outpost of the Japanese Tendai (Chin. Tiantai) sect of Buddhism, was founded atop Mount Hiei by ...
.
* July 12, 1081 (''Eihō 1, 4th day of the 6th month''): Miidera was burned again by monks from Mt. Hiei.
* 1083 (''Eihō 3, 10th month''): At Hosshō-ji, construction begins on a nine-story pagoda.
[Titsingh]
p. 171.
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Notes
References
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Berkeley: University of California Press.
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* Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005)
''Japan encyclopedia.''
Cambridge: Harvard University Press
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The pres ...
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* Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). ''Nihon Odai Ichiran
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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: Columbia University Press
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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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