was a after ''
Kanpō
was a , also known as Kampō, after '' Genbun'' and before '' Enkyō.'' This period spanned the years from February 1741 through February 1744. The reigning emperor was .
Change of era
* 1741 : Based on the belief in Chinese astrology that ...
'' and before ''
Kan'en
was a after and before . This period spanned the years from July 1748 to October 1751. The reigning emperor was .
Change of era
* 1748 : The era name was changed to (meaning "Prolonging Lenience") to mark the enthronement of Emperor Momozo ...
.'' This period spanned the years from February 1744 through July 1748. The reigning emperors were and .
[Titsingh, Isaac. (1834)]
''Annales des empereurs du japon'', pp. 417-418.
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Change of era
* 1744 : The new era of ''Enkyō'' (meaning "Becoming Prolonged") was created to mark the start of a new 60-year cycle of the Chinese zodiac
The Chinese zodiac is a traditional classification scheme based on the Chinese calendar that assigns an animal and its reputed attributes to each year in a repeating twelve-year (or duodenary) cycle. The zodiac is very important in traditional ...
. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in ''Kampō 4'', on the
Events of ''Enkyō'' era
* 1744 (''Enkyō 1''): A great comet was visible in the sky for many months; this comet is likely to have been what is today identified as C/1743 X1 (De Cheseaux).[Zhuang, T. (1988). ''Acta Astronomica Sinica'', v29:2, p. 208....Click link for online Harvard-Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System]
* 1745 (''Enkyō 2''): Tokugawa Ieshige became shōgun of the Edo bakufu.[Titsingh]
p. 418.
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* 1745 (''Enkyō 2''): First establishment of a market fair in the capital was to be found at the temple of Hirano, in the Ōmi province
was a Provinces of Japan, province of Japan, which today comprises Shiga Prefecture. It was one of the provinces that made up the Tōsandō Circuit (subnational entity), circuit. Its nickname is . Under the ''Engishiki'' classification system, ...
.Edo
Edo (), also romanized as Jedo, Yedo or Yeddo, is the former name of Tokyo.
Edo, formerly a (castle town) centered on Edo Castle located in Musashi Province, became the '' de facto'' capital of Japan from 1603 as the seat of the Tokugawa shogu ...
.
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 Odai Ichiran
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in t ...
''; ou
''Annales des empereurs du Japon.''
Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland
OCLC 5850691
* Zhuang, T. (1988). ''Acta Astronomica Sinica'', v29:2.
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
Japanese eras
1740s in Japan
1740s neologisms
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