was a after ''
Eiji'' and before ''
Ten'yō.'' This period spanned the year from April 1142 through February 1144. The reigning emperor was .
Change of Era
* January 29, 1142 : The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in ''Eiji'' 2, on the 28th day of the 4th month of 1142.
[Brown, p. 325.]
Events of the ''Kōji'' Era
* 1143 (''Kōji 2, 1st month''):
Cloistered Emperor Go-Toba-in, now known by the title
Daijō Tennō or or ''
Hōō'', visited his mother.
[Titsingh]
p. 186.
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* 1143 (''Kōji 2, 5th month''): Emperor Konoe passed his days praying at Tōdai-ji
is a Buddhist temple complex that was once one of the powerful Nanto Shichi Daiji, Seven Great Temples, located in the city of Nara, Nara, Nara, Japan. The construction of the temple was an attempt to imitate Chinese temples from the much-admir ...
and also at the temples on .
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 Odai Ichiran''; 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
* 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
1140s in Japan
Japanese eras
12th-century neologisms
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