Genna

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Genna (元和, Genna^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year" name") after Keichō and before Kan'ei. This period spanned the years from 1615 to 1624. The reigning emperor was Go-Mizunoo-tennō (後水尾天皇, Go-Mizunoo-tennō^?).^[1]

1 Change of era
2 Events of the Genna era
3 References
- 3.1 External links

[edit] Change of era

Genna gannen (元和元年, Genna gannen^?); 1615: The era name was changed to mark the enthronement of Go-Mizunuoo and because of disasters such as the Siege of Osaka (大坂の役,, Ōsaka-no-eki^?), or more commonly -- Siege of Osaka (大坂の陣,, Ōsaka-no-jin^?). The old era ended and a new one commenced in Keichō 20.

The Siege of Osaka was a series of battles undertaken by the Tokugawa shogunate against the Toyotomi clan, and ending in that clan's destruction. Divided into two stages (Winter Campaign and Summer Campaign), and lasting from 1614 through 1615, the siege put an end to the last major armed opposition to the establishment of an enduring Tokugawa shogunate. The end of this period of fighting is also sometimes called the Genna Armistice (元和偃武,, Genna-enbu^?) because the era name was changed from Keichō to Genna immediately following its ultimate resolution.

By order of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the era name of Emperor Xianzong of Tang China was adopted.

[edit] Events of the Genna era

Genna 1 (1615): Tokugawa Ieyasu and his son, Shogun Hidetada, marched again to Osaka Castle, which was captured and burned; but Hideyori managed to flee to Satsuma where he had prepared a refuge in advance.^[2]
Genna 1, on the 9th day of the 7th month (September 1, 1615): Ieyasu pulled down Hōkoku-jinja.^[3]
Genna 1, on the 28th day of the 7th month (1615): Ieyasu promulgated the Genna-rei in 17 clauses.^[3]
Genna 2, on the 17th day of the 4th month (1616): Ieyasu died at Suruga.^[2]
Genna 3, on the 26th day of the 8th month (1617): Former-Emperor Go-Yōzei died. He is buried at Nikkō.^[2]
Genna 4, in the 8th month (1618): A comet appeared in the sky.^[2]
Genna 6, on the 6th day of the 6th month (July 15, 1620): The emperor was married to Tokugawa Kazuko, the daughter of Shogun Hidetada; and also in that year.^[4]
Genna 6 (1620): There were severe fires in Mikayo on the 30th day of the 2nd month and on the 4th day of the 3rd month.^[2]
Genna 9, on the 12th day of the 8th month (September 6, 1623): the bakufu raised the Imperial maintenance allowance by 10,000 koku.^[3]
Genna 9 (1623): Tokugawa Iemitsu, son of Hidetada, came to the court of the emperor where he was created Shogun.^[2]

[edit] References

^ Tittsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 410-411.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Titsingh, p. 410.
^ ^a ^b ^c Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1956). Kyoto: the Old Capital of Japan, 794-1869, p. 317.
^ Ponsonby-Fane, p. 317; Titsingh, p. 410.

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)