Engi (era)

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Engi (延喜, Engi^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Shōtai and before Enchō. This period spanned the years from 901 through 923. The reigning emperors were Daigo-tennō (醍醐天皇, Daigo-tennō^?).^[1]

1 Change of era
2 Events of the Engi era
3 References
- 3.1 External links

[edit] Change of era

Engi gannen (延喜元年, Engi gannen^?); 901: The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Shōtai 4, on the 15th day of the 7th month of 901.^[2]

[edit] Events of the Engi era

Engi 1, on the 1st day of the 1st month (901): There was an eclipse of the sun.^[3]
Engi 1, in the 1st month (901): The Sugawara Michizane "incident" developed; but more details cannot be known, because Daigo ordered that diaries and records from this period should be burned.^[4]
Engi 5, in the 4th month: Ki-no Tsurayuki presented the emperor with the compilation of the Kokin Wakashū, a collection of waka poetry.^[5]
Engi 9, in the 4th month (909): The sadaijin Fujiwara no Tokihira died at the age of 39. He was honored with the posthumous title of regent.^[5]

[edit] References

^ Titsingh, Issac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 129-134; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gokanshō, pp. 291-293; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki, pp. 179-181.
^ Brown, p. 292.
^ Titsingh, p. 131.
^ Brown, p. 293.
^ ^a ^b Titsingh, p. 132.

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 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 0-321-04940-4

[edit] External links

National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection

Engi	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th	15th	16th	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23rd
Gregorian	901	902	903	904	905	906	907	908	909	910	911	912	913	914	915	916	917	918	919	920	921	922	923