Eiryaku
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Eiryaku (永暦?) was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō,?, lit. "year name") after Heiji and before Ōhō. This period spanned the years from 1160 through 1161. The reigning emperor was Nijō-tennō (二条天皇?).[1]
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[edit] Change of era
- Eiryaku gannen (永暦元年?); 1160: 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 Heiji 2, on the 10th day of the 1st month of 1160.[2]
[edit] Events of the Eiryaku era
- Eiryaku 1, on the 3rd day of the 1st month (1160): Yoshitomo
[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
- 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 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
| Eryaku | 1st | 2nd |
| Gregorian | 1160 | 1161 |
| Preceded by Heiji |
Era or nengō Eiryaku 1160 – 1161 |
Succeeded by Ōhō |
