Jōryaku
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Jōryaku (承暦?) was a Japanese era (年号, nengō, lit. year name) after Jōhō and before Eihō. This period spanned the years from 1077 through 1081. The reigning emperor was Emperor Shirakawa-tennō (白河天皇?).[1]
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[edit] Change of Era
- Jōryaku gannen (承暦元年?); 1077: The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Jōhō 4, on the 17th day of the 11th month of 1077.[2]
[edit] Events of the Jōryaku Era
- Jōryaku 1, in the 1st month (1077): Shirakawa went to the Kamo Shrines; and he visited Kiyomizu-dera and other Buddhist temples.[3]
- Jōryaku 1, in the 2nd month (1077): Udaijin Minamoto no Morofusa died at of an ulcer at the age of 7o.[3]
- Jōryaku 1 (1077): The emperor caused Hosshō-ji (dedicated to the "Superiority of Buddhist Law") to be built at Shirakawa in fulfillment of a sacred vow. This temple became only the first of a series of "sacred vow" temples to be created by Imperial decree. Hosshō-ji's nine-storied pagoda would become the most elaborate Imperial-sponsored temple structure ever erected up to this time.[4]
- Jōryaku 3, in the 10th month (1079): The emperor visited the Fushimi Inari-taisha at the foot of Mount Fushimi and the Yasaka Shrine.[3]
[edit] References
- Brown, Delmer and Ichiro Ishida, eds. (1979). [ Jien, 1221], 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
[edit] External links
- National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection
| Jōryaku | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th |
| Gregorian | 1077 | 1078 | 1079 | 1080 | 1081 |
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