was a after ''
Shōchō
was a after ''Ōei'' and before ''Eikyō'', from April 1428 until September 1429. Reigning emperors were and .
Change of era
* 1428 : The era name was changed to mark an event or a number of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenc ...
'' and before ''
Kakitsu
was a after ''Eikyō'' and before '' Bun'an''. This period spanned the years from February 1441 through February 1444. The reigning emperor was .
Change of era
* 1451 : The era name was changed to mark an event or a number of events. The prev ...
''. 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
was a Japanese samurai of the Akamatsu clan during the Muromachi Period. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005) "''Kaikitsu-no-hen,''"''Japan encyclopedia,'' p. 456.
Early life
Mitsusuke was the son of Akamatusu Yoshinori.
Assassin
In 1441, Mi ...
flees; Yoshinori receives rescript from China.
* 1433 (''Eikyō 5, 6th month''): The
Emperor of China
''Huangdi'' (), translated into English as Emperor, was the superlative title held by monarchs of China who ruled various imperial regimes in Chinese history. In traditional Chinese political theory, the emperor was considered the Son of Heave ...
addressed a letter to ''
shōgun
, officially , was the title of the military dictators 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, though during part of the Kamakur ...
'' Yoshinori in which, as a conventional aspect of the
foreign relations of Imperial China : ''For the later history after 1800 see History of foreign relations of China.''
The foreign relations of Imperial China from the Qin dynasty until the Qing dynasty encompassed many situations as the fortunes of dynasties rose and fell. Chinese c ...
, the Chinese assume that the head of the
Ashikaga shogunate
The , also known as the , was the feudal military government of Japan during the Muromachi period from 1336 to 1573.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)"''Muromachi-jidai''"in ''Japan Encyclopedia'', p. 669.
The Ashikaga shogunate was establi ...
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''.
Originally, from 1219 until ...
'' (Kantō administrator) Ashikaga Mochiuji
Ashikaga Mochiuji (, 1398–1439) was the Kamakura-fu's fourth Kantō kubō during the Sengoku period (15th century) in Japan. During his long and troubled rule the relationship between the west and the east of the country reached an all-time lo ...
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 a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing. It is a member of the Association of American University Presses. After the retirem ...
.
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 Japanese Calendar
-- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection
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