Shōryaku

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Shōryaku (正暦, Shōryaku^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Eiso and before Chōtoku. This period spanned the years from 990 through 995. The reigning emperor was Ichijō-tennō (一条天皇, Ichijō-tennō^?).^[1]

Contents 1 Change of era 2 Events of the Shōryaku era 3 References 3.1 External links

[edit] Change of era

• Shōryaku gannen (正暦元年, Shōryaku gannen^?); 990: 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 Eiso 3, on the 7th day of the 11th month of 990.^[2]

[edit] Events of the Shōryaku era

• Shōryaku 1 (990):
• Shōryaku 2, on the 12th day of the 2nd month (991): The former-Emperor En'yū died at the age of 33.^[3]
• Shōryaku 3 (992): Nara Governor Kujō Kanetoshi constructed a new temple complex named Shoryaku-ji in response to an Imperial edict.^[4]

[edit] References

• 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. (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 Society 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

Shōryaku	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th
Gregorian	990	991	992	993	994	995

Preceded by: Eiso

Era or nengō: Shōryaku

Succeeded by: Chōtoku

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