Jōō (Kamakura period)

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Jōō (貞応, Jōō^?) was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō, lit. year name) after Jōkyū and before Gennin. This period spanned the years from 1222 to 1224. The reigning emperor was Go-Horikawa-tennō.^[1]

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

[edit] Change of era

• Jōō gannen (貞応元年; 1222: The era name was changed to Jōō (meaning "Righteous Answer") to mark an event or a number of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in Jōkyū, on the 13th day of the 4th month of 1222.^[2]

[edit] Events of the Jōō Era

• Jōō 2 (1222): Regulations established concerning salaries for Jitō

[edit] References

• Brown, Delmer M. and Ichirō Ishida, eds. (1979). [ Jien, c. 1220], Gukanshō (The Future and the Past, a translation and study of the Gukanshō, an interpretative history of Japan written in 1219). 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.--Two copies of this rare book have now been made available online: (1) from the library of the University of Michigan, digitized January 30, 2007; and (2) from the library of Stanford University, digitized June 23, 2006. Click here to read the original text 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

Jōō	1st	2nd	3rd
Gregorian	1222	1223	1224

Preceded by: Jōkyū

Era or nengō: Jōō

Succeeded by: Gennin

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