Jōtoku

Jōtoku (承徳, Jōtoku^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Eichō and before Kōwa. This period spanned the years from 1097 through 1099. The reigning emperor was Emperor Horikawa-tennō (嘉保天皇, Emperor Horikawa-tennō^?).^[1]

[edit] Change of Era

Jōtoku gannen (承徳元年, Jōtoku gannen^?); 1097: The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Eichō 2, on the 21st day of the 11th month of 1097.^[2]

^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, pp. 172-176; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 317-319; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki, p. 202.
^ Brown, p. 319.

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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