Hōtoku

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Hōtoku (宝徳, Hōtoku^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Bun'an and before Kyotoku. This period spanned the years from 1449 through 1452. The reigning emperor was Go-Hanazono-tennō (後花園天皇, Go-Hanazono-tennō^?).^[1]

Contents 1 Change of era 2 Events of the Hōtoku era 3 References 3.1 External links

[edit] Change of era

• Hōtoku gannen (宝徳元年, Hōtoku gannen^?); 1449: The era name was changed to mark an event or a number of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in Bun'an 6, on the 28th day of the 7th month of 1449.^[2]

[edit] Events of the Hōtoku era

• Hōtoku 1 (1449): Ashikaga Yoshimasa becomes shogun.
• Hōtoku 3, in the 7th month (1451): A delegation from the Ryukyu Islands arrives for the first time in Heian-kyō.^[3]
• Hōtoku 3 (October 14, 1451): Fire destroys structures clustered near Gango-ji in Nara,^[4] but what remains gives an impression of what the oldest Buddhist temple in Japan might have been like.^[5]

[edit] References

• 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)
• Tonomura, Hitomi. (1992) Community and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan: The Corporate Villages of Tokuchin-ho. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-1941-1

[edit] External links

• National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection

Hōtoku	1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Gregorian	1449	1450	1451	1452

Preceded by: Bun'an

Era or nengō: Hōtoku

Succeeded by: Kyōtoku

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