Eikyū

Eikyū (永久, Eikyū^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Ten'ei and before Gen'ei. This period spanned the years from 1113 through 1118. The reigning emperor was Emperor Toba-tennō (鳥羽天皇, Emperor Toba-tennō^?).^[1]

[edit] Change of Era

Eikyū gannen (永久元年, Eikyū gannen^?); 1113: The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Ten'ei 4, on the thirteenth day of the seventh month of 1113.^[2]

Eikyū 1, in the 4th month (1113): Fujiwara Tadasane was named kampaku.^[3]
Eikyū 1, in the 4th month (1113): Emperor Toba visited the Matsunoo Shrine and the Kitano Tenman-gū. When the emperor visits Shinto shrines, it is always a pleasure party for him. Without this pretext, court etiquette would not have permitted him to have left the palace.^[3]
Eikyū 1, in the 10th month (1113): Toba visited the temples on Mount Hiei in the vicinity of Heian-kyō.^[3]
Eikyū 1, in the 11th month (1113): Toba visited the Inari Shrine and the Gion Shrine.^[3]

^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, pp. 178-180; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, p. 321; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki, pp. 200-204.
^ Brown, p. 321.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Titsingh, p. 179.

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. (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

Eikyū	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th
Gregorian	1113	1114	1115	1116	1117	1118

Preceded by Ten'ei	Era or nengō Eikyū 1113 – 1118	Succeeded by Gen'ei

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