Kaō (era)

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Kaō (嘉応, Kaō^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Nin'an and before Jōan. This period spanned the years from 1169 through 1171. The reigning emperor was Takakura-tennō (高倉天皇, Takakura-tennō^?).^[1]

1 Change of era
2 Events of the Kaō era
3 References
- 3.1 External links

[edit] Change of era

Kaō gannen (嘉応元年, Kaō gannen^?); 1169: The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in Nin'an 4, on the 8th day of the 4th month of 1169.^[2]

[edit] Events of the Kaō era

Kaō 1, in the 3rd month (1169): The former-Emperor Go-Shirakawa made a pilgrimage to Mont Koya.^[3]
Kaō 1, in the 6th month (1169): Go-Shirakawa accepted tonsure as a Buddhist priest; and he took the title Hōō.^[3]
Kaō 1, in the 12th month (1169): The chūnagon Fujiwara no Nurisika was banished to Bingo province as a consequence of complaints of Buddhist priests from Mt. Hiei; but shortly thereafter, he was recalled to Heian-kyō because of past services to Emperor Go-Shirakawa.^[3]

[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.
^ ^a ^b ^c Titsingh, p. 196.

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, 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