Ryakunin

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Ryakunin (暦仁, Ryakunin^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Katei and before En'ō. This period spanned the years from 1238 to 1239. The reigning emperor was Shijō-tennō (四条天皇, Shijō-tennō^?).^[1]

Contents 1 Change of era 2 Events of the Ryakunin Era 3 References 3.1 External links

[edit] Change of era

• Ryakunin gannen (暦仁元年, Ryakunin gannen^?); 1238: The era name was changed to mark an event or a number of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in Katei 4.

[edit] Events of the Ryakunin Era

• Ryakunin 1 (1238):

[edit] References

• Brown, Delmer M. and Ichirō Ishida, eds. (1979). [ Jien, c. 1220], Gukanshō (The Future and the Past, a translation and study of the Gukanshō, an interpretative history of Japan written in 1219). Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-03460-0
• 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 copies 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 0-231-04940-4

[edit] External links

• National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection

Ryakunin	1st	2nd
Gregorian	1238	1239

Preceded by: Katei

Era or nengō: Ryakunin

Succeeded by: En'ō

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