Shōwa (first)

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Shōwa (正和, Shōwa^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Ōchō and before Bunpō. This period spanned the years from 1312 through 1317. The reigning emperor was Hanazono-tennō (花園天皇, Hanazono-tennō^?).^[1]

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

[edit] Change of era

• Shōwa gannen (正和元年, Shōwa gannen^?); 1311: The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Ōchō 2.

[edit] Events of the Shōwa era

• Shōwa 1 (1311):

[edit] References

• 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 to 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

Shōwa	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th
Gregorian	1311	1312	1313	1314	1315	1316	1317

Preceded by: Ōchō

Era or nengō: Shōwa

Succeeded by: Bunpō

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