Shōchū (era)

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Shōchū (正中, Shōchū^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Genkō and before Karyaku. This period spanned the years from 1324 to 1326. The reigning Emperor was Go-Daigo-tennō (後醍醐天皇, Go-Daigo-tennō^?).^[1]

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

[edit] Change of era

Shōchū gannen (正中元年, Shōchū gannen^?); 1324: The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Genkō 4.

[edit] Events of the Shōchū era

Shōchū 1, in the 1st month (1324): The nadaijin Saionji Kinsighe died at age 41.^[2]
Shōchū 1, in the 3rd month (1324): The emperor visited the Iwashimizu Shrine.^[2]
Shōchū 1, in the 3rd month (1324): The emperor visited the Kamo Shrines.^[2]
Shōchū 1, in the 5th month (1324): Konoe Iehira died. He had been kampaku during the reign of Emperor Hanazono.^[3]
Shōchū 1, in the 6th (1324): The former-Emperor Go-Uda died at age 58.^[3]
Shōchū 2, in the 6th (1325): The former-shogun, Prince Koreyasu, died at age 62.^[3]
Shōchū 2, in the 12th (1325): The former-kampaku, Ichijō Uchitsune, died at age 36.^[3]
Shōchū 3 ((1326): Go-Diago's favorite, Empress Kishi, appeared to be pregnant, and the eager father-to-be visited her quarters daily; but this hopeful delight turned to regret when it turned out to be a false pregnancy.^[4]

[edit] References

^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, pp. 278-281; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki. pp. 239-241.
^ ^a ^b ^c Titsingh, p. 283.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Titsingh, p. 284.
^ Perkins, George. (1998). The Clear Mirror: A Chronicle of the Japanese Court during the Kamakura Period (1185-1333), pp. 183-184.

Perkins, George W. (1998). The Clear Mirror: A Chronicle of the Japanese Court during the Kamakura Period (1185-1333). Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-804-7295-3
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