Kyūju
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Kyūju (久寿?) was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō,?, lit. "year name") after Ninpei and before Hōgen. This period spanned the years from 1151 through 1154. The reigning emperors were Konoe-tennō (近衛天皇?) and Emperor Go-Shirakawa-tennō (後白河天皇?).[1]
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[edit] Change of era
- Kyūju gannen (久寿元年?); 1154: The new era name was created to mark an event or a number of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in Ninpei 4, on the 28th day of the 10th month of 1154.[2]
[edit] Events of the Kyūju era
- Kyūju 1, in the 5th month (1154): The udaijin Minamoto Masasada retired from public life to become a priest at age 61. He died several years later.[3]
- Kyūju 1, in the 8th month (1154): Fujiwara Saneyoshi, Grand General of the Right, was elevated to the role of Grand General of the Left; and the former dainagon Fujiwara Kanenaga (aged 17) was elevated to take on the newly vacated role of Grand General of the Right.[3]
- Kyūju 2, on the 23rd day of the 7th month (1155): Emperor Konoe died at the age of 17 years without leaving any heirs.[2]
- Kyūju 2, on the 24th day of the 7th month (1155): In the 14th year of Konoe-tennō's reign (近衛天皇14年), the emperor died; and despite an ensuring dispute over who should follow her as sovereign, contemporary scholars then construed that the succession (‘‘senso’’) was received by a younger brother, the 14th son of former-Emperor Toba. Shortly thereafter, Emperor Go-Shirakawa is said to have acceded to the throne (‘‘sokui’’).[4]
[edit] References
- ^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des emepereurs du japon, pp. 186-188; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 324-327; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki, pp. 205-208.
- ^ a b Brown, p. 326.
- ^ a b Titsingh, p. 188.
- ^ Titsingh, p. 189; Brown, p. 326; 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, 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
| Kyūju | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Gregorian | 1154 | 1155 | 1156 |
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