was a after ''

Daidō was a after ''Enryaku'' and before '' Kōnin.'' This period spanned the years from May 806 through September 810. The reigning emperors were and . Change of era * November 16, 806 : The new era name was created to mark an event or series o ...

'' and before '' Tenchō.'' This period spanned the years from September 810 through January 824. The reigning emperors were and .

Change of era

* February 9, 810 : The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in ''Daidō'' 4, on the 27th day of the 9th month of 810.

Events of the ''Kōnin'' era

* May 30, 823 (''Kōnin 14, 17th day of the 4th month''): In the 14th year of Emperor Saga's reign (嵯峨天皇14年), he abdicated; and the succession (''senso'') was received by his younger brother,

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's third son. Shortly thereafter,

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is said to have acceded to the throne.(''sokui'').Titsingh
p. 102
103; Brown, pp. 282; Varley, p. 44; a distinct act of ''senso'' is unrecognized prior to

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; and all sovereigns except

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, Yōzei,

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, and Fushimi have ''senso'' and ''sokui'' in the same year until the reign of

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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 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 ...

''; 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:

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.
OCLC 6042764

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