Jōgan

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Jōgan (貞観, Jōgan^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Ten'an and before Gangyō. This period spanned the years from 859 through 877. The reigning emperors were Seiwa-tennō (清和天皇, Seiwa-tennō^?). and Yōzei-tennō (陽成天皇, Yōzei-tennō^?).^[1]

1 Change of era
2 Events of the Jōgan era
3 References
- 3.1 See also
  - 3.1.1 External links

[edit] Change of era

Jōgan gannen (貞観元年, Jōgan gannen^?); 859): 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'an 3, on the 25th day of the 4th month of 859.^[2]

[edit] Events of the Jōgan era

Jōgan 1, in the 1st month (859): All New Year's festivities were suspended because of the period of national mourning for the death of Emperor Montoku.^[3]
Jōgan 6, in the 5th month (864): Mount Fuji erupted during 10 days, and it ejected from its summit an immense quantity of cinders and ash which fell back to earth as far away as the ocean at Edo bay. May people perished and a great number of homes were destroyed. The volcanic eruption began on the side of Fuji-san closes to Mount Asama, throwing cinders and ash as far away as Kai province.^[4]
Jōgan 10 (869): Yōzei was born, and he is named Seiwa's heir in the following year.^[5]
Jōgan 17, in the 11th month (876): In the 18th year of Seiwa-tennō's reign (清和天皇18年), the emperor ceded his throne to his five-year-old son, which means that the young child received the succession (‘‘senso’’). Shortly thereafter, Emperor Yōzei formally acceded to the throne (‘‘sokui’’).^[6]

[edit] References

^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, p. 115-121; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 286-288; Varley, H. Paul. Jinnō Shōtōki, pp. 166-17.
^ Brown, p. 287.
^ Titsingh, p. 116.
^ Titsingh, p. 118.
^ Titsingh, p. 122.
^ Titsingh, p. 122; Varley, p. 44. [A distinct act of senso is unrecognized prior to Emperor Tenji; and all sovereigns except Jitō, Yōzei, Go-Toba, and Fushimi have senso and sokui in the same year until the reign of Go-Murakami.]

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