Kanshō

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Kanshō (寛正, Kanshō^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Chōroku and before Bunshō. This period spanned from 1460 through 1466. The reigning emperors were Go-Hanazono-tennō (後花園天皇, Go-Hanazono-tennō^?) and Go-Tsuchimikado-tennō (後土御門天皇, Go-Tsuchimikado-tennō^?).^[1]

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

[edit] Change of era

Kanshō gannen (寛正元年, Kanshō gannen^?); 1460: The era name was changed to mark an event or a number of events. The old era ended and a new one commenced in Chōroku 4.

[edit] Events of the Kanshō era

Until former-Emperor Go-Komatsu died in 1433, Go-Hanazono held only a title. Although he may have been identified as the formal head of the Daïri or the Imperial "government", the fact-of-the-matter was that any real authority in the court was wielded by his "retired" uncle. During these years, Go-Komatsu exercised indirect powers in a uniquely Japanese a practice known as cloistered rule. After Komatsu's death, Go-Hanazono enjoyed 30 years of direct imperial rule; and after he did step down from the Chrysanthemum Throne, Go-Hanozano intended that the conventional pattern of indirect government by cloistered emperors would be resumed.

Kanshō 5, on the 19th day of the 7th month (August 21, 1464): Go-Hanazono resigned his throne in favor of his son, would be known as Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado.^[2]

After Go-Hanazono gave up the throne, there were no further abdications until Tenshō 14 (1586), when Emperor Ogimachi gave over the reigns of government to a grandson who would come to be known as Emperor Go-Yozei. The dearth of abdications is attributable to the disturbed state of the country and to the fact that there was neither any dwelling in which an ex-emperor could live nor any excess funds in the treasury to support him.^[3] In this instance, the former emperor lived another seven years after he descended from the throne. At age 52, Go-Hanazono died in Bunmei 3, in the 12th month (January 18, 1471)..^[4]

[edit] References

^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 331-351.
^ Titsingh, p. 351.
^ Ponsonby-Fane, Richard . (1956). Kyoto: The Old Capital of Japan, 794-1869, pp. 340-341.
^ Titsingh, p. 356.

Ponsonby-Fane, Richard A. B. (1956). Kyoto: The Old Capital of Japan, 794-1869. Kyoto: The Ponsonby Memorial Society.
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)