Eihō
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Eihō (永保?) was a Japanese era (年号, nengō,?, lit. "year name") after Jōryaku and before Ōtoku. This period spanned the years from 1081 through 1084. The reigning emperor was Emperor Shirakawa-tennō (白河天皇?).[1]
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[edit] Change of Era
- Eihō gannen (永保元年?); 1081: The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Jōryaku 5, on the 10th day of the 2nd month of 1081.[2]
[edit] Events of the Eihō Era
- Eihō 1, on the 15th day of the 4th month (1081): The Buddhist Temple of Miidera was set on fire by the monks of a rival sect on Mt. Hiei.[2]
- Eihō 1,on the 4th day of the 6th month (1081): Miidera was burned again by monks from Mt. Hiei.[3]
- Eihō 3, in the 10th month (1083): At Hosshō-ji, construction begins on a nine-story pagoda.[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 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
[edit] External links
- National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection
| Eihō | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th |
| Gregorian | 1081 | 1082 | 1083 | 1084 |
| Preceded by Jōryaku |
Era or nengō Eihō 1081 – 1084 |
Succeeded by Ōtoku |
