Chōkan
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Chōkan (長寛?) was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō,?, lit. "year name") after Ōhō and before Eiman. This period spanned the years from 1163 through 1165. The reigning emperors were Nijō-tennō (二条天皇?) and Emperor Rokujō-tennō (六条天皇?).[1]
[edit] Change of era
- Chōkan gannen (長寛元年?); 1163: The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in Ōhō 3, on the 29th day of the 3rd month.[2]
[edit] Events of the Chōkan era
- Chōkan 2, on the 26th day of the 8th month (1164):The former-Emperor Sutoku died at the age of 46.[2]
[edit] References
- Brown, Delmer and Ichiro Ishida, eds. (1979). [ Jien, c. 1220], 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, ed. (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 Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.... Click link for digitized, full-text copy 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
| Chōkan | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Gregorian | 1163 | 1164 | 1165 |
| Preceded by Ōhō |
Era or nengō Chōkan 1163 – 1165 |
Succeeded by Eiman |
