Hōreki
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Hōreki (宝暦?) was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō,?, lit. "year name") after Kan'en and before Meiwa. The period spanned the years from 1751 through 1764. The reigning emperor and emperess were Momozono-tennō (桃園天皇?) and Go-Sakuramachi-tennō (後桜町天皇?).
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[edit] Change of era
- Hōreki 1 (宝暦元年?); October 27, 1751: The new era of Hōreki (meaning "Valuable Calendar" or "Valuable Almanac") was said to have been created to mark the death of the retired Emperor Sakuramachi and the death of the former Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune.
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- The previous era could be said to have ended and the new era is understood to have commenced in Kan'en 4, on the 27th day of the 10th month; however, this nengō was promulgated retroactively. The Keikō Kimon records that the calendar was amended by Imperial command, and the era was re-named Hōreki on December 2, 1754, which then would have become 19th day of the 10th month of the 4th year of Hōreki.[1]
[edit] Events of the Hōreki era
- Hōreki 8 (1758): The Hōreki Incident
- Hōreki 10 (1760): Shogun Ieshige resigns and his son, Ieharu, becomes the 10th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate.[2]
- Hōreki 13 (1763): A merchant association handling Korean ginseng is founded in the Kanda district of Edo.[2]
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[edit] References
- Hall, John Whitney. (1988). The Cambridge History of Japan, v4: "Early Modern Japan." Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-5212-2357-1
- Ponsonby-Fane, Richard A.B. (1959). Kyoto: The Old Capital of Japan, 794-1869. Kyoto: Ponsonby-Fane Memorial.
- Screech, Timon. (2006). Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822. London: RoutledgeCurzon. ISBN 0-700-71720-X
- Isaac Titsingh|Titsingh]], Isaac. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō, 1652], Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. ... Click link for digitized, full-text copy of this book (in French)
[edit] External links
- National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection
- National Archives of Japan ...Clink link for map of Ogasawara Islands drawn in 2nd year of Horeki (1752)
Hōreki | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th | 12th | 13th | 14th |
Gregorian | 1751 | 1752 | 1753 | 1754 | 1755 | 1756 | 1757 | 1758 | 1759 | 1760 | 1761 | 1762 | 1763 | 1764 |
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