Kanna (era)

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Kanna (寛和, Kanna^?) was a Japanese era (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Eikan and before Eien. This period spanned the years from 985 through 987. The reigning emperors were En'yu-tennō (円融天皇, En'yu-tennō^?) and Ichijō-tennō (一条天皇, Ichijō-tennō^?).^[1]

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

[edit] Change of era

Kanna gannen (寛和元年, Kanna gannen^?); 985: 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 Eikan 3, on the 27th day of the 4th month of 985.^[2]

[edit] Events of the Kanna era

Kanna 2, in the 6th month (986): Kazan abdicated, and took up residence at Kazan-ji where he became a Buddhist monk; and his new priestly name was Nyūkaku.^[2]
Kanna 2, on the 16th day of the 7th month (986): Iyasada-shinnō was appointed as heir and crown prince at age 11.^[2] This followed the convention that two imperial lineages took the throne in turn, although Emperor Ichijō was in fact Iyasada's junior. He thus gained the nickname Sakasa-no moke-no kimi (the imperial heir in reverse). When Emperor Kanzan abandoned the world for holy orders, this grandson of Kaneie ascended to the throne as Emperor Ichijō.^[3]

[edit] References

^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 148-150; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, p. 300-302; Varely, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki, pp. 192.
^ ^a ^b ^c Brown, p. 302.
^ Varley, p. 195.

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. (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 Society 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