Genryaku

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Genryaku (元暦, Genryaku^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Juei and before Bunji. This period spanned the years from 1184 through 1185. The reigning emperors were Antoku-tennō (安徳天皇, Antoku-tennō^?) and Go-Toba-tennō (後鳥羽天皇, Go-Toba-tennō^?).^[1]

Contents 1 Change of era 2 Events of the Genryaku era 3 References 3.1 External links

[edit] Change of era

• Genryaku gannen (元暦元年, Genryaku gannen^?); 1184: The new era name was created to mark an event or a number of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in Juei 3, on the 16th day of the 4th month of 1184.^[2]

[edit] Events of the Genryaku era

• Genryaku 2, on the 24th day of the 3rd month (1185): the Taira (also known as the Heike) and the Minamoto clashed in the Battle of Dan-no-ura; and the Heike are utterly defeated.^[3]
• Genryaku 2, 9th day of the 7th month (1185): Great earthquake causes turmoil in the capital and in the neighboring provinces.^[3]

[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
• Kitagawa, Hiroshi and Bruce T. Tsuchida, eds. (1975). The Tale of the Heike. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press. ISBN 0-86008-128-1
• 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

[edit] External links

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

Genryaku	1st	2nd
Gregorian	1184	1185

Preceded by: Juei

Era or nengō: Genryaku

Succeeded by: Bunji

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