Hōki

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Hōki (宝亀, Hōki^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Jingo-keiun and before Ten'ō. This period spanned the years from 770 through 781. The reigning emperor was Kōnin-tennō (光仁天皇, Kōnin-tennō^?).^[1]

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

[edit] Change of era

Hōki gannen (宝亀元年, Hōki gannen^?); 770: The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Jingo-keiun 4, on the 18th day of the 8th month of 770.^[2]

[edit] Events of the Hōki era

Hōki 1, on the 1st day of the 10th month (宝亀元年; 770): The era name was changed to mark the beginning of Emperor Konin's reign.^[2]
Hōki 12, in the 4th month (781): The emperor abdicated in favor of his son, who would later come to be known as Emperor Kammu. Emperor Kōnin's reign had lasted for 11 years.^[2]
Hōki 12, in the 12th month (781): Kōnin died at the age of 73.^[3]

[edit] References

^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, pp. 81-85; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 276-277; Varley, H. Paul. Jinnō Shōtōki, pp. 147-148.
^ ^a ^b ^c Brown, p. 277.
^ Brown, p. 277; Varley, p. 148.

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 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 0-321-04940-4