Shōtai

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Shōtai (昌泰, Shōtai^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Kanpyō and before Engi. This period spanned the years from 898 through 901. The reigning emperor was Daigo-tennō (醍醐天皇, Daigo-tennō^?).^[1]

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

[edit] Change of era

• Shōtai gannen (昌泰元年, Shōtai gannen^?); 898: The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Ninna 5, on the 16th day of the 4th month of 898.^[2]

[edit] Events of the Shōtai era

• Shōtai 2, the 1st day of the 11th month (899): The sun entered into the winter solstice, and all the great officials of the empire presented themselves in Daigo's court.^[3]
• Shōtai 3, the 3rd day of the 1st month (900): Daigo went to visit his father in the place Uda had chosen to live after the abdication.^[4]
• Shōtai 3, in the 10th month (900): The former-Emperor Uda traveled to Mount Kōya (高野山, , Kōya-san^?) in what is now Wakayama prefecture to the south of Osaka. He visited the temples on the slopes of the mountain.^[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
• 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

[edit] External links

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

Shōtai	1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Gregorian	898	899	900	901

Preceded by: Kanpyō

Era or nengō: Shōtai

Succeeded by: Engi

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