Kenkyū

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Kenkyū (建久, Kenkyū^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Bunji and before Shōji. This period spanned the years from 1190 through 1199. The reigning emperor was Go-Toba-tennō (後鳥羽天皇, Go-Toba-tennō^?).^[1]

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

[edit] Change of era

Kenkyū gannen (建久元年, Kenkyū gannen^?); 1190: 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 Bunji 6, on the 14th day of the 8th month of 1185.^[2]

[edit] Events of the Kenkyū era

Kenkyū 3, on the 13th day of the 3rd month (1192): The former-Emperor Go-Shirakawa died at the age of 66.^[2] He had been father or grandfather to five emperors -- Emperor Nijō, the 78th emperor; Emperor Rokujō, the 79th emperor; Emperor Takakura, the 80th emperor; Emperor Antoku, the 81st emperor; and Go-Toba, the 81st emperor.^[3]
Kenkyū 3, 12th day of the 7th month (1192): Minamoto Yoritomo is named commander-in-chief of the forces to fight the barbarians.^[4]
Kenkyū 6, 4th day of the 3rd month (1195): Shogun Yoritomo revisits the capital.^[4]
Kenkyū 9, on the 11th day of the 1st month (1198): In the 15th year of Go-Toba-tennō's reign (後鳥天皇15年), the emperor abdicated; and the succession (‘‘senso’’) was received by his eldest son.^[5]
Kenkyū 9, in the 3rd month (1198): Emperor Tsuchimikado is said to have acceded to the throne (‘‘sokui’’).^[6]
Kenkyū 10, 13th day of the 1st month (1199): Shogun Yoritomo dies at age 53 in Kamakura.^[4]

[edit] References

^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, pp. 207-221; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 334-339; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki. pp. 215-220.
^ ^a ^b Brown, p. 337.
^ Varley, p. 208; Kitagawa et al. (1975). The Tale of the Heike, p. 788.
^ ^a ^b ^c Kitagawa, p. 788.
^ Brown, p.339; 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.]
^ Titsingh, p.221; Varley, p. 44.

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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.... 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 0231-04940-4