Shōtoku (era)

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Shōtoku (正徳, Shōtoku^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Hōei and before Kyōhō. This period spanned the years from 1711 through 1716. The reigning emperor was Nakamikado-tennō (中御門天皇, Nakamikado-tennō^?).^[1]

1 Change of Era
2 Events of the Shōtoku Era
3 References
- 3.1 External links

[edit] Change of Era

Shōtoku gannen (正徳元年, Shōtoku gannen^?); 1711: The era name of Shōtoku (meaning "Righteous Virtue") was created to mark the enthronement of Emperor Nakamikado. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Hōei 8, on the 25th day of the 4th month.

[edit] Events of the Shōtoku Era

Shōtoku 1 (1711): An ambassador from Korean arrived at the court.^[2]
Shōtoku 2, on the 14th day of the 10th month (1712): Shogun Tokugawa Ienobu died.^[2]
Shōtoku 3 (1713): Minamoto no Ietsugu became the 7th shogun of the Edo bakufu.^[2]
Shōtoku 4 (1714): The shogunate introduces new gold and silver coins into circulation.^[2]
Shōtoku 5, on the 17th day of the 3rd month (1715): The 100th anniversary of the death of Tokugawa Ieyasu (posthumously known as Gongen-sama), which was celebrated throughout the empire.^[1]

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b Titsingh, Issac. (1834) Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 416-417.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Titsingh, p. 416.

Screech, Timon. (2006). Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822. London: RoutledgeCurzon. ISBN 0-700-71720-X
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)