Kyūan
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Kyūan (久安?) was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō,?, lit. "year name") after Ten'yō and before Ninpei. This period spanned the years from 1145 through 1151. The reigning emperor was Konoe-tennō (近衛天皇?).[1]
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[edit] Change of Era
- Kyūan gannen (久安元年?); 1145: The new era name was created because a comet was sighted in the sky in the 7th month of Ten'yō gannen.[2] One era ended and a new one commenced in Ten'yō 1, on the 22nd day of the 7th month of 1145.[3]
[edit] Events of the Kyūan Era
- Kyūan 1, in the 8th month (1145): The mother of former-Emperor Sutoku, Taiken-mon In, died.[2]
- Kyūan 2, in the 2nd month (1146), Emperor Konoe visited Emperor Toba-no-Hōō.[2]
- Kyūan 2, in the 12th month (1146), Konoe joined in a celebration honoring Sesshō Fujiwara no Tadamichi (the regent) on his 58th birthday.[4]
- Kyūan 4, in the 6th month (1148): The imperial palace was consumed by flames.[5]
- Kyūan 6, in the 1st month (1150): Konoe assumed the role of a mature adult; and he married Fujiwara-no Tokoku, who had been raised by Sadaijin Fujiwara-no Yorinaga. Tokoku was the daughter of Dainagon Taira-no Kiyomori. This bride became kōgū (first empress).[5]
- Kyūan 6, in the 3rd month (1150): Konoe married again, this time to a daughter raised by Sesshō Fujiwara-no Tadamichi. She was the daughter of Dainagon Fujiwara-no Koremichi. This bride became chūgyo (second empress). Konoe was so very much enamoured of this second wife that he neglected his first wife, which caused discord in the kugyō, especially between Tadamichi and Yorinaga.[5]
- Kyūan 6, in the 12th month (1150): Sesshō Minamoto-no Tadamichi, resigns his position and is named Daijō Daijin. In this same month, Minamoto-no Yoshikane became head of the Ashikaga clan in Shimotsuke province.[5]
[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.
- ^ a b c Titsingh, p. 186.
- ^ Brown, pp. 325-326.
- ^ Titsingh, p. 186. [This event was important because, in each sexagenary cycle, the first and the fifty-eighth years were considered to be auspicious according to Chinese astrological principles.]
- ^ a b c d Titsingh, p. 187.
- 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
[edit] External links
- National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection
| Kyūan | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th |
| Gregorian | 1145 | 1146 | 1147 | 1148 | 1149 | 1150 | 1151 |
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