Kagen

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Kagen (嘉元, Kagen^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Kengen and before Tokuji. This period spanned the years from 1303 through 1306. The reigning emperor was Go-Nijō-tennō (後二条天皇, Go-Nijō-tennō^?).^[1]

Contents 1 Change of era 2 Events of the Kagen era 3 References 3.1 External links

[edit] Change of era

• Kagen gannen (嘉元元年, Kagen gannen^?); 1303: The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Kengen 2.

[edit] Events of the Kagen era

• Kagen 1 (1303):

[edit] References

• 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 Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.... Click link to 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 0-321-04940-4

[edit] External links

• National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection

Kagen	1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Gregorian	1303	1304	1305	1306

Preceded by: Kengen

Era or nengō: Kagen

Succeeded by: Tokuji

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