was a after ''
Bun'ō'' and before ''
Bun'ei
was a after '' Kōchō'' and before '' Kenji.'' This period spanned the years from February 1264 to April 1275. The reigning emperor was .
Change of era
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.'' This period spanned the years from February 1261 to February 1264. The reigning emperor was .
[Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). ''Annales des empereurs du Japon'', pp. 255-261; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). ''Jinnō Shōtōki.'' p. 232-233.]
Change of era
* ; 1261: 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 ''Bun'ō'' 2. The era name comes from ''The Political Program of the Zhenguan Period'' and combines the characters ("broad") and ("long").
Events of the '' Kōchō'' era
* June 11, 1261 (''Kōchō 1, 12th day of the 5th month''): Nichiren was exiled to Itō in the
Izu Province
was a province of Japan in the area now part of Shizuoka Prefecture and Tokyo. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''Izu''" in . Izu bordered on Sagami and Suruga Provinces. Its abbreviated form name was .
The mainland portion of Izu Prov ...
.
[Nichren. (2004). ''Writings of Nichiren Shonin: Doctrine 3'', p. 47.]
* March 19, 1262 (''Kōchō 2, 28th day of the 11th month''): Shinran passes away at the age of 90
* April 1, 1263 (''Kōchō 3, 22nd day of the 2nd month''): Nichiren was pardoned.
Notes
References
* Nichiren. (2004). ''Writings of Nichiren Shonin: Doctrine 3.'' onolulu:
University of Hawaii Press
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* Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005)
''Japan encyclopedia.''Cambridge:
Harvard University Press
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The pres ...
.
OCLC 58053128*
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 ...
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''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
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.
OCLC 6042764
External links
* National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar
-- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection
Japanese eras
1260s in Japan
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