Kannin

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Kannin (寛仁, Kannin^?) was a Japanese era (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Chōwa and before Jian. This period spanned the years from 1017 through 1021. The reigning emperor was Go-Ichijō-tennō (後一条天皇, Go-Ichijō-tennō^?).^[1]

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

[edit] Change of era

• Kannin 1 (寛仁元年, Kannin 1^?); 1017: The era name was changed to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in Chōwa 6, on the 23rd day of the 4th month of 1017.^[2]

[edit] Events of the Kannin era

• Kannin 1, on the 9th day of the 5th month (1017): The former-Emperor Sanjō died at the age of 42.^[2]
• Kannin 1, on the 17th day of the 4th month (1036): Emperor Go-Ichijō died at the age of 29.^[2]

[edit] References

• 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

[edit] External links

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

Kannin	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th
Gregorian	1017	1018	1019	1020	1021

Preceded by: Chōwa

Era or nengō: Kannin

Succeeded by: Jian

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