Daiji (era)

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Daiji ( 天承, Daiji^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Tenji and before Tenshō. This period spanned the years from 1126 through 1131. The reigning emperor was Sutoku-tennō (崇徳天皇, Sutoku-tennō^?).^[1]

1 Change of Era
2 Events of the Daiji Era
3 References
- 3.1 External links

[edit] Change of Era

Daiji gannen (天承元年, Daiji gannen^?); 1126: The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Tenji 3, on the 22nd day of the 1st month of 1126.^[2]

[edit] Events of the Daiji Era

Daiji 3, in the 3rd month (1128): Taiken-mon In ordered the construction of Enshō-ji in fulfillment of a sacred vow.^[3] This was one in a series of "sacred vow temples" (gogan-ji) built by imperial command following a precedent established by Emperor Shirakawa's Hosshō-ji.^[4]
Daiji 3, in the 6th month (1128): Fujiwara Tadamichi is releaved of his responsibilities and duties as sesshō (regent); and simultaneously, Tadamichi is named kampaku.^[3]
Daiji 4, on the 7th day of the 7th month (1129): The former-Emperor Shirakawa died at the age of 77.^[2]

[edit] References

^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des emepereurs du japon, pp. 181-185; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 322-324; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki, pp. 204-205.
^ ^a ^b Brown, p. 323.
^ ^a ^b Titsigh, p. 185.
^ Varley, p. 200. [The six gogan-ji) "superiority" temples were: 1. Hosshō-ji (Superiority of Buddhist Law); 2. Sonshō-ji (Superiority of Worship); 3. Saishō-ji (Most Superior); 4. Enshō-ji (Superiority of Perfection); 5. Jōshō-ji (Superirority of Becoming); 6. Enshō-ji (Superiority of Duration).]

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