Ōtoku
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Ōtoku (応徳?) was a Japanese era (年号, nengō,?, lit. "year name") after Eihō and before Kanji. This period spanned the years from 1084 through 1087. The reigning emperor was Emperor Shirakawa-tennō (白河天皇?).[1]
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[edit] Change of Era
- Ōtoku gannen (応徳元年?); 1084: The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Eihō 4, on the 7th day of the 2nd month.[2]
[edit] Events of the Ōtoku Era
- Ōtoku 1, in the 9th month (1084): The empress Kenshi, the emperor's principal consort, died. Shirakawa was afflicted with great grief, and for a time, he turned over the administration of the government to his ministers.[3]
- Ōtoku 3, in the 9th month (1084): Shirakawa announced his intention to abdicate in favor of his son.[3]
- Ōtoku 3, on the 26th day of the 11th month (1084): Shirakawa formally abdicated,[2] and he took the title Daijō-tennō.[3] Shirakawa had personally occupied the throne for 14 years; and for the next 43 years, he would exercise broad powers in what will come to be known as cloistered rule.[4]
[edit] References
- Brown, Delmer and Ichiro Ishida, eds. (1979). [ Jien, 1221], Gukanshō; "The Future and the Past: a translation and study of the 'Gukanshō,' an interpretive history of Japan written in 1219" translated from the Japanese and edited by Delmer M. Brown & Ichirō Ishida. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-03460-0
- Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō, 1652]. Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon, tr. par M. Isaac Titsingh avec l'aide de plusieurs interprètes attachés au comptoir hollandais de Nangasaki; ouvrage re., complété et cor. sur l'original japonais-chinois, accompagné de notes et précédé d'un Aperçu d'histoire mythologique du Japon, par M. J. Klaproth. Paris: Oriental Translation Society of Great Britain and Ireland....Click link for digitized, full-text of this book (in French)
- Varley, H. Paul , ed. (1980). [ Kitabatake Chikafusa, 1359], Jinnō Shōtōki ("A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa" translated by H. Paul Varley). New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-04940-4
[edit] External links
- National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection
| Ōtoku | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th |
| Gregorian | 1084 | 1085 | 1086 | 1087 |
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