was a after ''
Bunji'' and before ''
Shōji
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.'' This period spanned the years from April 1190 through April 1199. The reigning emperor was .
Change of era
* 1190 : The new era name was created to mark an event or a number of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in ''Bunji'' 6, on the 14th day of the 8th month of 1185.
[Brown, p. 337.]
Events of the ''Kenkyū'' era
* 1192 (''Kenkyū 3, 13th day of the 3rd month''): The former-
Emperor Go-Shirakawa died at the age of 66.
He had been father or grandfather to five emperors --
Emperor Nijō, the 78th emperor;
Emperor Rokujō, the 79th emperor;
Emperor Takakura, the 80th emperor;
Emperor Antoku, the 81st emperor; and
Go-Toba, the 82nd emperor.
* 1192 (''Kenkyū 3, 12th day of the 7th month''):
Minamoto no Yoritomo
was the founder and the first shogun of the Kamakura shogunate, ruling from 1192 until 1199, also the first ruling shogun in the history of Japan.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Minamoto no Yoriie" in . He was the husband of Hōjō Masako ...
is named commander-in-chief of the forces to fight the barbarians.
[Kitagawa p. 788.]
* 1195 (''Kenkyū 6, 4th day of the 3rd month''): Shōgun Yoritomo revisits the capital.
* 1198 (''Kenkyū 9, 11th day of the 1st month''): In the 15th year of Go-Toba''-tennō''s reign (後鳥天皇15年), the emperor abdicated; and the succession (''senso'') was received by his eldest son.
* 1198 (''Kenkyū 9, 3rd month''): Emperor Tsuchimikado is said to have acceded to the throne (''sokui'').
[Titsingh, p.221; Varley, p. 44.]
* 1199 (''Kenkyū 10, 13th day of the 1st month''): Shōgun Yoritomo dies at age 53 in Kamakura.
See also
* ''
Mumyōzōshi'', a text on literary criticism also known as ''Kenkyū Monogatari''
Notes
References
* Brown, Delmer and Ichiro Ishida. (1979). ''The Future and the Past: a translation and study of the 'Gukanshō', an interpretative history of Japan written in 1219''. Berkeley:
University of California Press
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.
OCLC 5145872* Kitagawa, Hiroshi and Bruce T. Tsuchida, eds. (1975). ''
The Tale of the Heike
is an epic account compiled prior to 1330 of the struggle between the Taira clan and Minamoto clan for control of Japan at the end of the 12th century in the Genpei War (1180–1185).
It has been translated into English at least five times. ...
''. Tokyo:
University of Tokyo Press. ; ; ;
OCLC 193064639* 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
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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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