was a
Japanese era name
The or , is the first of the two elements that identify years in the Japanese era calendar scheme. The second element is a number which indicates the year number within the era (with the first year being "", meaning "origin, basis"), followed b ...
after
Hōei
was a after Genroku and before Shōtoku''.'' This period spanned the years from March 1704 through April 1711. The reigning emperors were and .
Etymology
''Hōei'' comes from the Old Book of Tang ().
Change of era
* 1704 : In reaction to t ...
and before
Kyōhō
, also pronounced Kyōho, was a after '' Shōtoku'' and before ''Genbun.'' This period spanned the years from July 1716 through April 1736. The reigning emperors were and .
Change of era
* 1716 : The era name of ''Kyōhō'' (meaning "Undergo ...
. This period spanned the years from April 1711 through June 1716.
[Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''Shōtoku''" ; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, ''see']
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. The reigning emperor was .
[Titsingh, Isaac. (1834]
''Annales des empereurs du japon'', pp. 416-417.
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Change of Era
* 1711 : The era name of ''Shōtoku'' (meaning "Righteous Virtue") was created to mark the enthronement of Emperor Nakamikado. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in ''Hōei'' 8, on the 25th day of the 4th month.
Events of the ''Shōtoku'' Era
* 1711 (''Shōtoku 1''): An ambassador from Korea arrived at the court.[Titsingh]
p. 416.
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* November 12, 1712 (''Shōtoku 2, 14th day of the 10th month''): Shōgun Tokugawa Ienobu
(11 June 1662 – 12 November 1712) was the sixth ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa dynasty of Japan. He was the eldest son of Tokugawa Tsunashige, thus making him the nephew of Tokugawa Ietsuna and Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, the grandson of Tokugawa Iem ...
died.Tokugawa Ieyasu
Tokugawa Ieyasu (born Matsudaira Takechiyo; 31 January 1543 – 1 June 1616) was the founder and first ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which ruled from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He was the third of the three "Gr ...
(posthumously known as Gongen-sama), which was celebrated throughout the empire.
Notes
References
* 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 48943301
* Screech, Timon. (2006)
''Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822.''
London: RoutledgeCurzon
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.
OCLC 65177072
* 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
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
Japanese eras
1710s in Japan
1710s neologisms
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