Jōkyō

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Jōkyō (貞享, Jōkyō^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Tenna and before Genroku. This period spanned the years from 1684 through 1688. The reigning emperors were Reigen-tennō (霊元天皇, Reigen-tennō^?) and Higashiyama-tennō (東山天皇, Higashiyama-tennō^?).^[1]

Contents 1 Change of era 2 Events of the Jōkyō era 3 Notes 4 References 4.1 External links

[edit] Change of era

• Jōkyō gannen (貞享元年, Jōkyō gannen^?); 1684: The new era of Jōkyō (meaning "Taking Righteousness") was created to mark the start of a new cycle of the Chinese zodiac. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Tenna 4, on the 21st day of the 2nd month.

[edit] Events of the Jōkyō era

• Jōkyō 1 (1684): A fire burned the Imperial palace to ashes; and the reconstruction would take a year.^[2]
• Jōkyō 1 (1684): Having met with success in Osaka's kabuki theater, Chikamatsu Monzaemon begans to write plays for the kabuki audience in Heian-kyō; and in part, his success will stem from the way his work would sometimes mirror current happenings and contemporary urban characters.^[3]
• Jōkyō 2, on the 22nd day of the 2nd month (1685): The former-Emperor Go-Sai died; and a large comet appeared in the night sky.^[1]
• Jōkyō 3, on the 21st day of the 3rd month (1687): Emperor Reigen abdicates in favor of his son, who will become Emperor Higashiyama.^[1] After abdication, Reigen's new home will be called the Sentō-gosho (the palace for an ex-Emperor).^[2]
• Jōkyō 4, on the 16th day of the 11th month (December 20, 1688): The esoteric Daijō-sai ceremony, having been in abeyane since the time of Emperor Go-Kashiwabara -- for nine reigns -- was revived because of the bakufu's insistence.^[4] This Shinto ritual is performed only once by emperor in the period of the enthronement ceremonies.^[5]

[edit] Notes

[edit] References

• Bock, Felicia G. (1990). "The Great Feast of the Enthronement," Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 45, No. 1.
• Calvert, Robert. (2003). Les Japonais: Histoire d'un peuple. Paris: Armand Colin. ISBN 2-200-26317-1
• Ponsonby-Fane, Richard A.B. (1956). Kyoto: The Old Capital of Japan, 794-1869. Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society.
• 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)

[edit] External links

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

Jōkyō	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th
Gregorian	1684	1685	1686	1687	1688

Preceded by: Tenna

Era or nengō: Jōkyō

Succeeded by: Genroku