- Enkyō (Edo period)
nihongo|"Enkyō"|延享 was a nihongo| Japanese era name|年号,|"nengō",|lit. "
year name" after "Kanpō " and before "Kan'en." This period spanned the years from 1744 through 1748. The reigning emperors were nihongo|Sakuramachi"-tennō"|桜町天皇 and nihongo|Momozono"-tennō"|桃園天皇.Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). "Annales des empereurs du japon," pp. 417-418.]Change of era
*; 1744: 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
* "Enkyō 1" (1744): Great comet was visible in sky for many months; and this comet is likely to have been what is today identified as C/1743 C1 (De-Cheseaux). [Zhuang, T. (1988). "Acta Astronomica Sinica," v29:2, p. 208.] [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1988AcASn..29..199Z ...Click link for online Harvard-Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System] ]
* "Enkyō 2" (1745):Tokugawa Ieshige became shogun of the Edo bakufu. [see above] ]
* "Enkyō 2" (1745): First establishment of a market fair in the capital was to be found at the temple ofHirano , in theŌmi province . [see above] ]
* "Enkyō 3", in the 2nd month (1745): A great fire sweeps throughEdo . [see above] ]Notes
References
* Screech, Timon. (2006). "Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822." London:
RoutledgeCurzon . ISBN 0-700-71720-X
* Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō , 1652] , "Nipon o daï itsi ran ; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon." 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)]
* Zhuang, T. (1988). "Acta Astronomica Sinica", v29:2.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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