Saikō

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Saikō (斉衡, Saikō^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Ninju and before Ten'an. This period spanned the years from 854 through 857. The reigning emperor was Montoku-tennō (文徳天皇, Montoku-tennō^?).^[1]

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

[edit] Change of era

Saikō gannen (斉衡元年, Saikō gannen^?); 854: The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Ninju 4, on the 29th day of the 11th month of 845.^[2]

[edit] Events of the Saikō era

Saikō 1, on the 13th day of the 6th month (854): The sadaijin Minamoto no Tokiwa, also known as Minamoto no Tsune, died at age 43.^[3]
Saikō 2, in the 1st month (855): The Emishi organized a rebellion; and in response, a force of 1,000 men and provisions were sent to the north.^[4]
Saikō 2, in the 5th month (855): The head of the great statute of Buddha in the Tōdai-ji fell off; and in consequence, the emperor ordered the then dainagon Fujiwara no Yoshisuke, the brother of sadaijin Yoshifusa, to be in charge of gathering the gifts of the pious from throughout the empire to make another head for the Daibutsu.^[4]

[edit] References

^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, p. 112; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 264-265; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki, p. 165.
^ Brown, p. 285.
^ Brown, p. 285; Titsingh, p. 113.
^ ^a ^b Titsingh, p. 114.

Brown, Delmer and Ichiro Ishida, eds. (1979). [ Jien, c. 1221], 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
Titsingh, Isaac. (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 0-321-04940-4