Kempo (era)
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Kempo (建保?) was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō, lit. year name) after Kenryaku and before Jōkyū. This period spanned the years from 1213 through 1219. The reigning emperor was Juntoku-tennō (順徳天皇).[1]
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[edit] Change of era
- Kempo gannen (建保元年; 1213): The new era name was created because the previous era ended and a new one commenced in Kenryaku 3, on the 6th day of the 12th month of 1213.[2]
[edit] Events of the Kempo era
- Kempo 1, on the 1st day of the 1st month (1213): There was an earthquake at Kamakura.[3]
- Kempo 1, in the 11th month (1213): Fujiwara no Teika, also known as Fujiwara no Sadeie offered a collection of 8th century poems to Shogun Sanetomo. These poems were collectively known as the Man'yōshū.[4]
- Kempo 2, in the 2nd month (1214): Shogun Sanetomo, having drunk too much sake, was feeling somewhat uncomfortable; and the Buddhist priest Eisai, who was the grand priest of the Jufuku-ji temple-complex, presented the shogun with an excellent tea, which restored his good health.[4]
- Kempo 2, in the 3rd month (1214): The emperor went to Kasuga.[4]
- Kempo 2, in the 4th month (1214): A group of militant priests living on Mt. Hiei set fire to the central temple structure at Enryaku-ji. The damage was repaired at the expense of Shogun Sanetomo.[4]
- Kempo 3, in the 1st month (1215): Hōjō Tokimasa died at age 78 in the mountains of Izu province.[4]
- Kempo 3, in the 6th month (1215): The well-known priest Eisai died at age 75; his remains were interred at the temple of Kennin-ji which he had founded in Kyoto.[4]
- Kempo 3, in the 8th-9th months (1215): There were many, serial earthquakes in the Kamakura area.[4]
- Kempo 5, in the 8th-9th months (1217): The emperor visited the Shrines at Hirano and at Ōharano near Kyoto.[5]
[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
- Kitagawa, Hiroshi and Bruce T. Tsuchida, eds. (1975). The Tale of the Heike. Tokyo. University of Tokyo Press. ISBN 0-86008-128-1
- 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.--Two digitized examples of this rare book have now been made available online: (1) from the library of the University of Michigan, digitized January 30, 2007; and (2) from the library of Stanford University, digitized June 23, 2006. Click here to read the original text 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 0231-04940-4
[edit] External links
- National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection
| Kempo | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th |
| Gregorian | 1213 | 1214 | 1215 | 1216 | 1217 | 1218 | 1219 |
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