Kōji (Heian period)

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Kōji (康治, Kōji^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Eiji and before Ten'yō. This period spanned the year from 1142 through 1144. The reigning emperor was Konoe-tennō (近衛天皇, Konoe-tennō^?).^[1]

1 Change of Era
2 Events of the Kōji Era
3 References
- 3.1 External links

[edit] Change of Era

Kōji gannen (康治元年, Kōji gannen^?); 1142: The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in Eiji 2, on the 28th day of the 4th month of 1142.^[2]

[edit] Events of the Kōji Era

Kōji 2, in the 1st month (1143): Cloistered Emperor Go-Toba-in, now known by the title Daijō Hōō (太上法皇, Daijō Hōō^?) or Hōō, visited his mother.^[3]
Kōji 2, in the 5th month (1143): Emperor Konoe passed his days praying at Tōdai-ji and also at the temples on Mount Hiei (比叡山, Hiei-zan^?).^[3]

[edit] References

^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des emepereurs du japon, pp. 186-188; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 324-326; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki, p. 205.
^ Brown, p. 325.
^ ^a ^b Titsingh, p. 186.

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, 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