Shōji (era)
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Shōji (正治?) was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō,?, lit. "year name") after Kenkyū and before Kennin. This period spanned the years from 1199 through 1201. The reigning emperor was Tsuchimikado-tennō (土御門天皇?).[1]
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[edit] Change of era
- Shōji gannen (正治元年?); 1199: The new era name was created to mark an event or a number of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in Kenkyū 10, on the 27th day of the 4th month of 1199.[2]
[edit] Events of the Shōji era
- Shōji 1, on the 10th day of the 12th month (January 29, 1199): Oyama Tomomasa was appointed to the shugo post of Harima province and governor of Heian-kyo.[3]
- Shōji 2, in the 10th month (1200): Hōjō Tokimasa was created daimyo of Ōmi Province.[4]
[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
- Kitagawa, Hiroshi and Bruce T. Tsuchida, eds. (1975). The Tale of the Heike. Tokyo. University of Tokyo Press. ISBN 0-86008-128-1
- Mass, Jeffrey. (1976) The Kamakura Bakufu: A Study in Documents. Stanford:Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-0907-6
- Titsingh, Isaac, ed. (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 llink 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 0231-04940-4
[edit] External links
- National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection
Shōji | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
Gregorian | 1199 | 1200 | 1201 |
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