Jinki (era)

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Jinki ( 神亀, Jinki^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Yōrō and before Tenpyō. This period spanned the years from 724 through 729. The reigning emperor was Shōmu-tennō (聖武天皇, Shōmu-tennō^?).^[1]

1 Change of era
2 Events of the Yōrō era
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Change of era

Jinki gannen (神亀元年, Jinki gannen^?); 724: The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Yōrō 8, on the 4th day of the 2nd month of 724.^[2]

[edit] Events of the Yōrō era

Jinki 4 (727): The emperor sent commissioners into all the provinces to look into examine the administrations of the governors and the the conduct of all public functionaries.^[3]
Jinki 5 (724): An ambassador from Korea was received in court.^[3]

[edit] References

^ Titsingh, Issac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, p. 66-73; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 272-273; Varley, H. Paul. Jinnō Shōtōki, pp. 141-143.
^ Brown, p. 273.
^ ^a ^b Titsingh, p. 68.

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.... 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