Shōkyō

History of Japan

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Glossary

Shōkyō (正慶?, also pronounced "Shōkei") was a brief initial Japanese era of the Northern Court during the Kamakura Period, after Gentoku and before Kemmu, lasting from April 1332 to April 1333.[1] Reigning Emperors were Emperor Go-Daigo in the south and Emperor Kōgon in the north.[2]

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Nanboku-chō overview

During the Meiji period, an Imperial decree dated March 3, 1911 established that the legitimate reigning monarchs of this period were the direct descendants of Emperor Go-Daigo through Emperor Go-Murakami, whose Southern Court had been established in exile in Yoshino, near Nara.[3]

Until the end of the Edo period, the militarily superior pretender-Emperors supported by the Ashikaga shogunate had been mistakenly incorporated in Imperial chronologies despite the undisputed fact that the Imperial Regalia were not in their possession. [3]

This illegitimate Northern Court had been established in Kyoto by Ashikaga Takauji. [3]

Change of era

In this time frame, Genkō (1331-1333) was the Southern Court equivalent nengō.

Events of the Shōkyō Era

Notes

  1. ^ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Tenshō" in Japan encyclopedia, p. 882; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File.
  2. ^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 286-289.
  3. ^ a b c Thomas, Julia Adeney. (2001). Reconfiguring modernity: concepts of nature in Japanese political ideology, p. 199 n57, citing Mehl, Margaret. (1997). History and the State in Nineteenth-Century Japan. p. 140-147.
  4. ^ Titsingh, p. 287.

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Preceded by
Gentoku
Japanese era name Succeeded by
Kemmu