Kankō

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Kankō (寛弘, Kankō^?) was a Japanese era (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Chōhō and before Chōwa. This period spanned the years from 1004 through 1012. The reigning emperors were Ichijō-tennō (一条天皇, Ichijō-tennō^?) and Sanjō-tennō (三条天皇, Sanjō-tennō^?).^[1]

1 Change of Era
2 Events of the Kankō Era
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Change of Era

Kankō gannen (寛弘元年, Kankō gannen^?); 1004: The era namewas changed to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in Kankō 6, on the 20th day of the 7th month of 1004.^[2]

[edit] Events of the Kankō Era

Kankō 5, on the 8th day of the 2nd month (1008): The former-Emperor Kazan died at the age of 41.^[3]
Kankō 8, on the 13th day of the 6th month (1011): In the 5th year of Emperor Ichijō's reign (一条天皇5年), he abdicated; and the succession (‘‘senso’’) was received by his cousin. Shortly thereafter, Emperor Sanjō is said to have acceded to the throne (‘‘sokui’’).^[4]
Kankō 8, 22nd day of the 6th month (1011): Daijō-tennō Ichijō died at the age of 32.^[3]
Kankō 8, 24th day of the 10th month (1011): Daijō-tennō Reizei, who was Emperor Sanjō's father, died at age 62.^[5]

[edit] References

^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 150-154; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 302-307; Varley, Jinnō Shōtōki, pp. 192-195.
^ Brown, p. 305.
^ ^a ^b Brown, p. 306
^ Titsingh, p. 154; Brown, p. 307; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki, 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.]
^ Titsingh, p. 155; Brown, p. 306.

Brown, Delmer M. and Ichirō Ishida, eds. (1979). [ Jien, 1221], 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