was a after ''
Shōchō'' and before ''
Kakitsu''. This period spanned the years from September 1429 through February 1441. The reigning emperor was .
Change of era
* 1429 : The era name was changed to mark the beginning of the reign of Emperor Go-Hanazono. The previous era ended and a new era commenced in ''Shōchō 1'', on the 29th day of the 7th month, when the new emperor was proclaimed.
Events of the ''Eikyō'' era
* April 14, 1429 (''Eikyō 1, 9th day of the 3rd month''):
Ashikaga Yoshinobu is honored in court; and thereafter, he is known as
Yoshinori.
* 1429: Yoshinori appointed shōgun.
[Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982) ''Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron'', p. 330.]
* 1430: Southern army surrenders.
* 1432:
Akamatsu Mitsusuke flees; Yoshinori receives rescript from China.
* 1433 (''Eikyō 5, 6th month''): The
Emperor of China
Throughout Chinese history, "Emperor" () was the superlative title held by the monarchs of imperial China's various dynasties. In traditional Chinese political theory, the emperor was the " Son of Heaven", an autocrat with the divine mandat ...
addressed a letter to ''
shōgun
, officially , was the title of the military rulers of Japan during most of the period spanning from 1185 to 1868. Nominally appointed by the Emperor, shoguns were usually the de facto rulers of the country, except during parts of the Kamak ...
'' Yoshinori in which, as a conventional aspect of the
foreign relations of Imperial China, the Chinese assume that the head of the
Ashikaga shogunate is effectively the "king of Japan".
* 1433: Ōtomo rebels; Hieizan monks rebel.
* 1434: Tosenbugyo established to regulate foreign affairs.
[Kinihara, Misako]
''The Establishment of the Tosen-bugyō in the Reign of Ashikaga Yoshinori'' (唐船奉行の成立 : 足利義教による飯尾貞連の登用)
''Tokyo Woman's Christian University: Essays and Studies''. Abstract.
* 1436: Yasaka Pagoda at Hokanji in Kyoto destroyed by fire.
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* 1438: Kantō ''Kanrei
or, more rarely, ''kanryō'', was a high political post in feudal Japan; it is usually translated as ''shōguns deputy''. After 1349, there were actually two ''Kanrei'', the ''Kyoto Kanrei'' and the ''Kantō Kanrei''. But originally from 1219 unt ...
'' (Kantō administrator) Ashikaga Mochiuji rebels against Muromachi shogunate, also known as .
* 1439: Mochiuji is defeated, and he commits suicide; dissatisfaction with Yoshinori grows.
* 1440: Yasaka Pagoda at Hokanji in Kyoto re-constructed by Yoshinori.[Ackroyd, p. 330; Okinawa Prefecture (2004]
''This is Okinawa'', p.3.
Notes
References
* 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 ...
.
OCLC 48943301
* 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
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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