Shōji (era)
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Shōji (正治) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,, lit. "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-kyo.[4]
- 1200 (Shōji 2, 10th month): Hōjō Tokimasa was created daimyo of Ōmi Province.[5]
Notes
- ^ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Shōji" in Japan encyclopedia, p. 882; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File.
- ^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, p. 221-224; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, p. 340; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki. p. 221.
- ^ Brown, p. 340.
- ^ Titsingh, p. 223; Mass, Jeffrey. (1976) The Kamakura Bakufu: A Study in Documents, p. 158.
- ^ Titsingh, p. 224.
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. 10-ISBN 0520034600; 13-ISBN 9780520034600; OCLC 5145872
- Kitagawa, Hiroshi and Bruce T. Tsuchida, eds. (1975). The Tale of the Heike. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press. 10-ISBN 4130870246/13-ISBN 9784130870245; 10-ISBN 4130870238/13-ISBN 9784130870238; 10-ISBN 0860081885/13-ISBN 9780860081883; 10-ISBN 0860081893/13-ISBN 9780860081890; OCLC 193064639
- Mass, Jeffrey. (1976) The Kamakura Bakufu: A Study in Documents. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 10-ISBN 0804709076/13-ISBN 9780804709071; OCLC 246494466
- Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 10-ISBN 0-674-01753-6; 13-ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128
- 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
- Varley, H. Paul. (1980). A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa. New York: Columbia University Press. 10-ISBN 0231049404/13-ISBN 9780231049405; OCLC 6042764
External links
- National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection
| Shōji | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Gregorian | 1199 | 1200 | 1201 |
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