Hōreki

Hōreki (宝暦), also known as Horyaku,[1] was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō,, lit. "year name") after Kan'en and before Meiwa. The period spanned the years from October 1751 through June 1764.[2] The reigning emperor and emperess were Momozono-tennō (桃園天皇) and Go-Sakuramachi-tennō (後桜町天皇).[3]

Change of era

The previous era could be said to have ended and the new era is understood to have commenced in Kan'en 4, on the 27th day of the 10th month; however, this nengō was promulgated retroactively. The Keikō Kimon records that the calendar was amended by Imperial command, and the era was renamed Hōreki on December 2, 1754, which then would have become 19th day of the 10th month of the 4th year of Hōreki.[4]

Events of the Hōreki era

Notes

  1. Pnkala, Maria. (1980) "A survey of Japanese ceramics: a handbook for the collector, p. 245.
  2. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Hōreki" Japan Encyclopedia, p. 352, p. 352, at Google Books; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Titsingh, Isaac. (1834) Annales des empereurs du japon, p. 418.
  4. Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1959). Kyoto: The Old Capital of Japan, 794-1869, p. 321.
  5. 5.0 5.1 Titsingh, p. 419.
  6. Hall, John. (1988). The Cambridge History of Japan, p. xxiii.
  7. Kim, Jinwung. (2012). A History of Korea: From 'Land of the Morning Calm' to States in Conflict, p. 255.

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Preceded by
Kan'en
Era or nengō
Hōreki

1751–1764
Succeeded by
Meiwa