Ansei

Ansei (安政) was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō,, lit. "year name") after Kaei and before Man'en. This period spanned the years from November 1854 through March 1860.[1] The reigning emperor was Kōmei-tennō (孝明天皇).

Change of era

The new era name was derived from an hortatory aphorism: "Rule peacefully over the masses, then the ruler will remain in his place" (庶民安政、然後君子安位矣).

Although the notion seems appealing, the arrival of the Black Ships and Commodore Matthew C. Perry is not specifically recognized as a factor in the change of era names.

Events of the Ansei era

Edo Castle's Sakurada Gate (Sakurada-mon): The assassination of Ii Naosuke occurred nearby.

Notes

  1. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Ansei" Japan Encyclopedia, p. 33, p. 33, at Google Books; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File.
  2. Satow, Ernest Mason. (1905). Japan 1853-1864, Or, Genji Yume Monogatari, p. 11.
  3. 3.0 3.1 _____. (2007). "Great Earthquakes of Ansei" (安政大地震 Ansei Daijishin) in Historical Encyclopedia of Great Edo (大江戸歴史百科 Ō-Edo Rekishi Hyakka), p. 253.
  4. 4.0 4.1 Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1956). Kyoto: The Old Capital of Japan, 794-1869. p. 324.
  5. Smitts, Gregory. "Shaking up Japan: Edo Society and the 1855 Catfish Picture Prints", Journal of Social History, No 39, No. 4, Summer 2006.
  6. "Significant Earthquake Database" U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
  7. Whitney, Willis Norton. (1885). "Notes on the history of medical progress in Japan", Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, pp. 841-842.
  8. "Local agrarian societies in colonial India: Japanese perspectives.". Kaoru Sugihara, Peter Robb, Haruka Yanagisawa (1996). p 313.
  9. Ozaki, Yukio. (2001). The Autobiography of Ozaki Yukio, p. 21.
  10. Cullen, Louis. (2003). A History of Japan, 1582-1941: Internal and External Worlds, p. 180-186.
  11. Cullen, pp. 184-188.
  12. Kusunoki, pp. 52-66; Cullen, p. 184.

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Preceded by
Kaei
Era or nengō
Ansei

18541860
Succeeded by
Man'en