Kennin

Kennin (建仁, Kennin^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Shōji and before Genkyū. This period spanned the years from 1201 through 1204. The reigning emperor was Tsuchimikado-tennō (土御門天皇, Tsuchimikado-tennō^?).^[1]

[edit] Change of era

Kennin gannen (建仁元年, Kennin gannen^?); 1201: The new era name was created to mark an event of shin'yū (辛酉), which is considered as the year of revolution in Sexagenary cycle. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in Shōji 3, on the 13th day of the 2nd month of 1201.^[2]

Kennin 2, in the 1st month (1202): Nitta Yoshishige, the deputy director for cuisine of Dairi (大炊助) in Daijō-kan, died. His court rank had been of the second rank of the fifth class (従五位下).^[3]
Kennin 2, in the 7th month (1202): Minamoto no Yoriie was raised in the court's hierarchic standing to the second rank of the second class; and he was created the 2nd shogun of the Kamakura shogunate.^[3]
Kennin 2, in the 10th month (1202): Naidaijin Minamoto no Michichika died at at 54; and his court position was then filled by dainagon Fujiwara no Takatada.^[3]
Kennin 3, in the 8th month (1203): Shogun Yoriie fell gravely ill.^[3]
Kennin 3, in the 9th month (1203): Yoriie shaved his head and became a Buddhist priest; and the emperor named Minamoto no Sanetomo as the 3rd shogun; and Hōjō Tokimasa became Sanetomo's shikken (regent).^[4]

^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 221-227; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, p. 340; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki, pp. 220-221.
^ Brown, p. 340.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Titsingh, p. 225.
^ Titsingh, p. 226.

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