Enkyō (Edo period)

For the earlier Japanese historical era of the same name, see Enkyō (Kamakura period).

Enkyō (延享) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,, lit. "year name") after Kanpō and before Kan'en. This period spanned the years from February 1744 through July 1748. The reigning emperors were Sakuramachi-tennō (桜町天皇) and Momozono-tennō (桃園天皇).

Change of era

• 1744 Enkyō gannen (延享元年): The new era of Enkyō (meaning "Becoming Prolonged") was created to mark the start of a new 60-year cycle of the Chinese zodiac. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in Kampō 4, on the

Events of Enkyō era

• 1744 (Enkyō 1): Great comet was visible in sky for many months; this comet is likely to have been what is today identified as C/1743 X1 (De Cheseaux)....Click link for online Harvard-Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System
• 1745 (Enkyō 2): Tokugawa Ieshige became shogun of the Edo bakufu.
• 1745 (Enkyō 2): First establishment of a market fair in the capital was to be found at the temple of Hirano, in the Ōmi province.
• 1746 (Enkyō 3, 2nd month): A great fire sweeps through Edo.

References

• Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 48943301
• Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Nihon Odai Ichiran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC 5850691.
• Zhuang, T. (1988). Acta Astronomica Sinica, v29:2.

External links

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