Keian

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Keian (慶安, Keian^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Shōhō and before Jōō. This period spanned the years from 1648 through 1652. The reigning emperor was Go-Kōmyō-tennō (後光明天皇, Go-Kōmyō-tennō^?).^[1]

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

[edit] Change of era

Keian gannen (慶安元年, Keian gannen^?), 1648: The new era name was created in response to criticism that Shōhō was too closely related to Shōbō (焼亡, meaning "death by burning"). The previous era ended and a new one commenced in Shōhō 5, on the 2nd day of the 5th month.

The new era name was drawn from the Chinese classic, The I Ching: "At the end happiness, joy of quiet righteousness, answer the world unlimited" (乃終有慶、安貞之吉、応地無疆):

[edit] Events of the Keian era

Keian 2, on the 20th day of the 2nd month (1649): There was a major earthquake in Edo.^[1]
Keian 4 (1651): Keian Uprising. Plans by well-organized ronin to attack several Tokugawa strongholds simultaneously were timely discovered. The attempt plan to overthrow the Edo Bakufu by Marubashi Chuya and Yui Shōsetsu was thwarted.^[2]
Keian 5, in the 5th month (1652): Nihon Ōdai Ichiran is first published in Kyoto under the patronage of the tairō Sakai Tadakatsu, daimyo of the Obama Domain of Wakasa Province.^[3]

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, p. 412.
^ Screech, T. (2006). Secret Memoirs of the Shogans: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822, pp. 85-89.
^ Titsingh, p. 412. [The first copy of this rare book was brought from Japan to Europe by Isaac Titsingh in 1796. Titsingh translated the text from Japanese and Chinese; and his work was then supplemented for posthumous publication by Julius Klaproth. The initial Japanese authorship is confirmed; the precise nengō-dating is confirmed in the same passage at p. 406.]

Screech, Timon. (2006). Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822. London: RoutledgeCurzon. ISBN 0-700-71720-X
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)