Kenji (Japanese era)

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Kenji (建治, Kenji^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Bun'ei and before Kōan. This period spanned the years from 1275 to 1278. The reigning emperor was Go-Uda-tennō (後宇多天皇, Go-Uda-tennō^?).^[1]

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

[edit] Change of era

Kenji gannen (建治元年, Kenji gannen^?); 1275: 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 Bun'ei 12.

[edit] Events of the Kenji era

Kenji 1 (1275):

[edit] References

^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, pp. 262-268; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki. p. 233-237.

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)
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