Eiryaku
{{Short description|Period of Japanese history (1160–1161 CE)}}
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{{nihongo|Eiryaku|永暦}} was a {{nihongo|Japanese era name|年号|nengō|lit. "year name"}} after Heiji and before Ōhō. This period spanned the years from January 1160 through September 1161.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Eiryaku" in {{Google books|p2QnPijAEmEC|Japan Encyclopedia, p. 172|page=172}}; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see [https://archive.today/20120524174828/http://dispatch.opac.ddb.de/DB=4.1/PPN?PPN=128842709 Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File]. The reigning emperor was {{nihongo|Nijō-tennō|二条天皇}}.Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). [https://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&dq=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran&pg=PP9 Annales des emepereurs du japon, pp. 191]-194; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 327-329; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki, pp. 208-212.
Change of era
- February 9, 1160 {{nihongo|Eiryaku gannen|永暦元年}}: 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 Heiji 2, on the 10th day of the 1st month.Brown, p. 328.
Events of the ''Eiryaku'' era
- 1160 (Eiryaku 1): Minamoto no Yoshitomo (1123–1160), was killed in a campaign to overthrow the imperial chancellor, Taira no Kiyomori. Yoshitomo's wife, Tokiwa Gozen was compelled to flee Kyoto with her three sons.[http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/about.php?action=inside Claremont Colleges Digital Library:] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090220221859/http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/about.php?action=inside |date=2009-02-20 }} [http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=%2Fcyw&CISOPTR=370&DMSCALE=14.10189&DMWIDTH=800&DMHEIGHT=1167.63617134&DMMODE=viewer&DMFULL=0&DMOLDSCALE=1.81159&DMX=0&DMY=0&DMTEXT=%2520kiyomori&DMTHUMB=1&REC=1&DMROTATE=0&x=37&y=81 Ukiyo-e, Accession No. 93.6.40.]
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References
- Brown, Delmer M. and Ichirō Ishida, eds. (1979). [https://books.google.com/books?id=w4f5FrmIJKIC&q=Gukansho Gukanshō: The Future and the Past.] Berkeley: University of California Press. {{ISBN|978-0-520-03460-0}}; [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/251325323 OCLC 251325323]
- Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). [https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC Japan encyclopedia.] Cambridge: Harvard University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-674-01753-5}}; [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58053128?referer=di&ht=edition OCLC 58053128]
- Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Nihon Odai Ichiran; ou, [https://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&q=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran Annales des empereurs du Japon.] Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5850691 OCLC 5850691]
- Varley, H. Paul. (1980). A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa. New York: Columbia University Press. {{ISBN|9780231049405}}; [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6042764 OCLC 6042764]
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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