Gentoku

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Gentoku (嘉暦, Gentoku^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Karyaku and before Genkō. This period spanned the years from 1329 to 1331. The reigning Emperor was Go-Daigo-tennō (後醍醐天皇, Go-Daigo-tennō^?).^[1]

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

[edit] Change of era

Gentoku gannen (嘉暦元年, Gentoku gannen^?); 1329: The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Karyaku 4.

[edit] Events of the Gentoku era

Gentoku 1 (1329):
Gentoku 2, 8th day of the 3rd month (1330): The Emperor visited Tōdai-ji and Kōfuku-ji in Nara.^[2]

[edit] References

^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, pp. 278-281; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki. pp. 239-241.
^ McCullough, Helen Craig. (2004). The Taiheiki, p.28.

McCullough, Helen Craig. (1959). The Taiheiki. New York: Columbia University Press. [reprinted by Tuttle Publishing, Tokyo, 2004. ISBN 0-8048-3538-1 (paper)]
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