Kajō

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Kajō (嘉承, Kajō^?), also pronounced Kashō, was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Chōji and before Tennin. This period spanned the years from 1106 through 1108. The reigning emperors were Horikawa-tennō (堀河天皇, Horikawa-tennō^?) and Toba-tennō (鳥羽天皇, Toba-tennō^?).^[1]

[edit] Change of era

Kajō gannen (嘉承元年, Kajō gannen^?); 1106: The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Chōji 3, on the 9th day of the 4th month of 1106.^[2]

[edit] Events of the Kajō era

Kajō 1, on the 19th day of the 7th month (1107): In the 21st year of Emperor Horikawa-tennō's reign (堀河天皇21年), the emperor died at the age of 29; and the succession (‘‘senso’’) was received by his only son. Shortly thereafter, Emperor Toba is said to have acceded to the throne (‘‘sokui’’).^[3]

[edit] References

^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, pp. 178-181; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 320-322; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki. pp. 203-204.
^ Brown, p. 319.
^ Titsingh, p. 178; Brown, pp. 320; Varley, p. 44. [A distinct act of senso is unrecognized prior to Emperor Tenji; and all sovereigns except Jitō, Yōzei, Go-Toba, and Fushimi have senso and sokui in the same year until the reign of Go-Murakami.]

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 Society 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