Taihō (era)

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Taihō (大宝, Taihō^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after a late 7th century interruption in the sequence of nengō after Shuchō and before Keiun. This period spanned the years from 701 through 704. The reigning emperor was Mommu-tennō (文武天皇, Mommu-tennō^?).^[1]

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

[edit] Change of era

• Taihō gannen (大宝元年, Taihō gannen^?); 701: The new era name Taihō (meaning "Great Treasure") was proclaimed to memorialize the creation of the "great treasure" of codified organization and laws. The new era commenced on the 21st day of the 3rd month of 701.^[2]

[edit] Events of the Taihō era

• Taihō 2 (702): TheThe Taihō Code or Code of Taihō (大宝律令, Taihō-ritsuryō^?) or Taihōryō reorganizing the central government and completing many of the reforms begun by the Taika Reforms in 646.^[3]

[edit] References

• Asakawa, Kan'ichi. (1903). The Early Institutional Life of Japan. Tokyo: Shueisha [New York: Paragon Book Reprint Corp., 1963].
• 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 0-231-04940-4

[edit] External links

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

Taihō	1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Gregorian	701	702	703	704

Preceded by: Shuchō

Era or nengō: Taihō

Succeeded by: Keiun