Kanpyō (era)

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Kanpyō (寛平, Kanpyō^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Ninna and before Shōtai. This period spanned the years from 889 through 898. The reigning emperors were Uda-tennō (宇多天皇, Uda-tennō^?) and Daigo-tennō (醍醐天皇, Daigo-tennō^?).^[1]

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

[edit] Change of era

Kanpyō gannen (寛平元年, Kanpyō gannen^?); 889: The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Ninna 5, on the 27th day of the 4th month of 889.^[2]

[edit] Events of the Kanpyō era

Kanpyō 1, in the 10th month (899): The former-Emperor Yōzei was newly attacked by the mental illness. Yōzei would enter the palace and address courtiers he would meet with the greatest rudeness. He became increasingly furious. He garroted women with the strings of musical instruments and then threw the bodies into a lake. While riding on horseback, he directed his mount to run over people. Sometimes he simply disappeared into the mountains where he chased wild boars and red deer.^[3]
Kanpyō 9, on the 3rd day of the 7th month (897): In the 10th year of Uda-tennō's reign (宇多天皇10年), Emperor Uda abdicated; and his eldest son received the succession (‘‘senso’’).^[4]
Kanpyō 9, on the 5th day of the 7th month (897): Emperor Daigo formally acceded to the throne (‘‘sokui’’).^[5]

[edit] References

^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 125-129; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 289-290; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki, pp. 175-179.
^ Brown, p. 290.
^ Titsingh, p. 127.
^ Tisingh, p. 129; Varley, 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.]
^ Brown, p. 291; Varley, p. 44

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 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 0-321-04940-4