Eishō (Heian period)
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This article is about the Japanese era Eishō occurring during the Heian period. For other uses, see Eishō.
Eishō (永承?) was a Japanese era (年号, nengō,?, lit. "year name") after Kantoku and before Tengi. This period spanned the years from 1046 through 1053. The reigning emperor was Go-Reizei-tennō (後冷泉天皇?).[1]
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[edit] Change of Era
- Eishō gannen (永承元年?); 1046: The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Kantoku 3, onteh 14th day of the 4th month of 1046.[2]
[edit] Events of the Eishō Era
- Eishō 6 (1051): In Michinoku, Abe no Sadatō and Munetō instigate a rebellion which becomes known as the Nine Years War (1051-1062) because, even though the period of strife lasts for 11 years, the actual fighting lasts for nine years. In response, Minamoto no Yoriyoshi is appointed governor of Mutsu and he is named chinjufu shōgun. He is given these titles and powers so that he will be able to restore peace in the north. Yoriyoshi would have been the first to receive this specific shogunal title, although his grandfather (Minamoto no Tsunemoto) had been seitō fuku-shōgun (assistant commander for pacification of the east).[3]
[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. (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 Society 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
| Eishō | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th |
| Gregorian | 1046 | 1047 | 1048 | 1049 | 1050 | 1051 | 1052 |
| Preceded by Kantoku |
Era or nengō Eishō 1046 – 1052 |
Succeeded by Tengi |
