Jishō
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Jishō (治承?) was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō,?, lit. "year name") after Angen and before Yōwa. This period spanned the years from 1177 through 1181. The reigning emperors were Takakura-tennō (高倉天皇?) and Antoku-tennō (安徳天皇?).[1]
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[edit] Change of era
- Jishō gannen (治承元年?); 1177: The new era name was created to mark an event or a number of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in Angen 3, on the 4th day of the 8th month of 1177.[2]
[edit] Events of the Jishō era
- Jishō 1, on the 28th day of the 4th month (1177): A great fire in the capital was spread by high winds; and the palace was reduced to cinders.[3]
- Jishō 2, 12th day of the 11th month (1178): Emperor Takakura's consort, Tokuko, gives birth to an infant who will become Emperor Antoku.[4]
- Jisho 4, 21st day of the 2nd month (1180): Emperor Takakura abdicates.[4]
- Jishō 4, on the 21st day of the 4th month (1180): In the 12th year of Takakura-tennō's reign (高倉天皇12年), the emperor was forced to abdicate; and the succession (‘‘senso’’) was received by his infant son, the grandson of Taira Kiyomori.[5]
- Jisho 4, 22nd day of the 4th month (1180): Emperor Antoku’s is said to have acceded to the throne (‘‘sokui’’) on the day of his cornonation ceremony.[6]
- Jisho 4, 2nd day of the 6th month (1180): Former-Emperor Go-Shirakawa-in, former-emperor Takakura-in and Emperor Antoku leave Kyoto for Fukuhara, which is near modern-day Kōbe, Hyōgo.[4]
- Jisho 4, 26th day of the 11th month (1180): The capital is moved back to Kyoto from Fukuhara.[7]
- Jisho 4 (1180): A devastating whirlwind causes havoc in Heian-kyo, the capital.[8]
- Jisho 5, 14th day of the 1st month (1181): Emperor Takakura dies.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, pp. 195-200; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 330-333; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki. pp. 212-214.
- ^ Brown, p. 332.
- ^ Titsigh, p. 198; Kitagawa, H. (1975). The Tale of the Heike, p. 783; Kamo no Chōmei. (1212). Hōjōki.
- ^ a b c d Kitagawa, H. (1975). The Tale of the Heike, p. 784.
- ^ Titsingh, p. 200; Brown, p. 333; Kitagawa, p. 784; 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.]
- ^ Kitagawa, p. 784; Varley, p. 44.
- ^ Kitagawa, p. 785.
- ^ Kamo no Chōmei. (1212). Hōjōki.
- Brown, Delmer and Ichiro Ishida, eds. (1979). [ Jien, c. 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
- Kitagawa, Hiroshi and Bruce T. Tsuchida. (1975). The Tale of the Heike. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press. ISBN 0-86008-128-1
- 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
[edit] External links
- National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection
| Jishō | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th |
| Gregorian | 1177 | 1178 | 1179 | 1180 | 1181 |
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