Shōji (era)

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Shōji (正治) was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō, "year name") after Kenkyū and before Kennin. This period spanned the years from April 1199 through February 1201.^[1] The reigning emperor was Tsuchimikado-tennō (土御門天皇).^[2]

Change of era

• 1199 Shōji gannen (正治元年): 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 Kenkyū 10, on the 27th day of the 4th month of 1199.^[3]

Events of the Shōji era

• January 29, 1199 (Shōji 2, 12th day of the 2nd month): Oyama Tomomasa was appointed to the shugo post of Harima Province and governor of Heian-kyō.^[4]
• 1200 (Shōji 2, 10th month): Hōjō Tokimasa was created daimyo of Ōmi Province.^[5]

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References

• Brown, Delmer and Ichiro Ishida. (1979). The Future and the Past: a translation and study of the 'Gukanshō', an interpretative history of Japan written in 1219. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-03460-0; OCLC 5145872
• Kitagawa, Hiroshi and Bruce T. Tsuchida, eds. (1975). The Tale of the Heike. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press. ISBN 9784130870245; ISBN 9784130870238; ISBN 9780860081883; ISBN 9780860081890; OCLC 193064639
• Mass, Jeffrey. (1976) The Kamakura Bakufu: A Study in Documents. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804709071; OCLC 246494466
• Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128
• Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Nihon Ōdai Ichiran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC 5850691
• Varley, H. Paul. (1980). A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231049405; OCLC 6042764

External links

• National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" – historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection