, also

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as Shōhei, was a after ''

Enchō was a after '' Engi'' and before ''Jōhei.'' This period spanned the years from April 923 through April 931. The reigning emperors were and . Change of era * January 20, 923 : The new era name was created to mark an event or series of event ...

'' and before ''

Tengyō was a after ''Jōhei'' and before '' Tenryaku.'' This period spanned the years from May 938 through April 947. The reigning emperors were and . Change of era * February 2, 938 : The new era name was created to mark an event or series of even ...

.'' This period spanned the years from April 931 through May 938. The reigning emperor was .

Change of era

* January 22, 931 : The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in ''Enchō'' 9, on the 26th day of the 4th month of 931.

Events of the ''Jōhei'' era

* September 3, 931 (''Jōhei 1, 19th day of the 7th month''): The former-

Emperor Uda was the 59th emperor of Japan,Imperial Household Agency (''Kunaichō'') 宇多天皇 (59)/ref> according to the traditional order of succession. Uda's reign spanned the years from 887 through 897. Traditional narrative Name and legacy Befor ...

(867-931) died at the age of 65. * 932 (''Jōhei 2, 8th month''): The ''

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'' (Minister of the Right)

Fujiwara no Sadakata , also known as the , was a Japanese poet and courtier. The poet Fujiwara no Kanesuke was his cousin and son-in-law and his son Fujiwara no Asatada, Asatada was also a poet. He had another son by the name of Fujiwara no Tomoyori and his father wa ...

(873-932) died at the age of 65.Titsingh
p. 135.
/ref> * 933 (''Jōhei 3, 8th month''): The ''

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'' (great counselor) Fujiwara no Nakahira, brother of '' sesshō'' (regent) Fujiwara Takahira, is named ''udaijin.'' * 933 (''Jōhei 3, 12th month''): Ten of the chief dignitaries of the empire went falcon-hunting together in

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. Each of them was magnificent in his formal hunting attire. * 935 (''Jōhei 5''): The Great Fundamental Central Hall (''kompon chūdō'') on

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burned down.Brown, p. 295. * September 7, 936 (''Jōhei 6, 19th day of the 8th month''): Fujiwara no Tadahira was named ''daijō-daijin'' (Prime Minister); and in this same period, Fujiwara Nakahira was named ''sadaijin'' (Minister of the Left), and Fujiwara Tsunesuke was named ''udaijin''. * 937 (''Jōhei 7, 12th month''): The former-

Emperor Yōzei was the 57th emperor of Japan,Imperial Household Agency (''Kunaichō'') 陽成天皇 (57)/ref> according to the traditional order of succession. Yōzei's reign spanned the years from 876 through 884. Traditional narrative Before his ascension ...

celebrated his 70th birthday.

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:

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 58053128
* 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
* Varley, H. Paul. (1980). ''A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa''. New York:

Columbia University Press Columbia University Press is a university press based in New York City 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 ...

.
OCLC 6042764

External links

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, "The Japanese Calendar
-- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection
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