Engi (era)

Engi (era)

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nihongo|Engi|延喜 was a nihongo|Japanese era name|年号,|"nengō",|lit. "year name" after "Shōtai" and before "Enchō." This period spanned the years from 901 through 923. The reigning emperors were nihongo|Daigo"-tennō"|醍醐天皇. [Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). "Annales des empereurs du japon," pp. 129-134; Brown, Delmer "et al." (1979). "Gokanshō," pp. 291-293; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). "Jinnō Shōtōki," pp. 179-181.]

Change of era

*; 901: The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in "Shōtai" 4, on the 15th day of the 7th month of 901. [Brown, p. 292.]

Events of the "Engi" era

* "Engi 1", on the 1st day of the 1st month (901): There was an eclipse of the sun. [Titsingh, p. 131.]
* "Engi 1", in the 1st month (901): The Sugawara Michizane "incident" developed; but more details cannot be known, because Daigo ordered that diaries and records from this period should be burned. [Brown, p. 293.]
* "Engi 5", in the 4th month: Ki-no Tsurayuki presented the emperor with the compilation of the Kokin Wakashū, a collection of waka poetry.Titsingh, p. 132.]
* "Engi 9", in the 4th month (909): The "sadaijin" Fujiwara no Tokihira died at the age of 39. He was honored with the posthumous title of regent. [see above] ]

References

* Brown, Delmer and Ichiro Ishida, eds. (1979). [Jien, c. 1220] , "Gukanshō; "The Future and the Past: a translation and study of the 'Gukanshō,' an interpretive history of Japan written in 1219" translated from the Japanese and edited by Delmer M. Brown & Ichirō Ishida." Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-03460-0
* Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō, 1652] . "Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon, tr. par M. Isaac Titsingh avec l'aide de plusieurs interprètes attachés au comptoir hollandais de Nangasaki; ouvrage re., complété et cor. sur l'original japonais-chinois, accompagné de notes et précédé d'un Aperçu d'histoire mythologique du Japon, par M. J. Klaproth." Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. [http://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&dq=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran ... Click link for digitized, full-text copy of this book (in French)]
* Varley, H. Paul , ed. (1980). [Kitabatake Chikafusa, 1359] , "Jinnō Shōtōki ("A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa" translated by H. Paul Varley)." New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-321-04940-4

External links

* National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" [http://www.ndl.go.jp/koyomi/e/ -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection]





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