Ken'ei
{{Short description|Period of Japanese history (1206–1207 CE)}}
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{{nihongo|Ken'ei|建永}} was a {{nihongo|Japanese era name|年号|nengō|lit. "year name"}} after Genkyū and before Jōgen. This period spanned the years from April 1206 through October 1207.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Ken'ei" in [https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC&pg=PA508 Japan encyclopedia, p. 508]; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see [http://dispatch.opac.ddb.de/DB=4.1/PPN?PPN=128842709 Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120524174828/http://dispatch.opac.ddb.de/DB=4.1/PPN?PPN=128842709 |date=2012-05-24 }}. The reigning emperor was {{nihongo|Tsuchimikado-tennō|土御門天皇|}}.Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 221-229; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, p. 340; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki, pp. 220-221.
Change of era
- 1206 {{nihongo|Ken'ei gannen|建永元年}}: 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 Genkyū 3, on the 27th day of the 4th month of 1206.Brown, p. 340.
Events of the ''Ken'ei'' era
- 1206 (Ken'ei 1, 2nd month): Shōgun Minamoto no Sanetomo's standing at court was raised to the 2nd rank of the 4th class.Titsingh, p. 227.
- 1206 (Ken'ei 1, 7th day of the 3rd month): The emperor planned to pay a visit to the sesshō Kujō Yoshitsune, but in the night before this visit, an unknown assassin was introduced secretly into Yoshitune's house, and he was stabbed by a spear pushed up from below the floor. No one was able to discover the perpetrator. Yoshitsune was then aged 38 years. The sadaijin Konoe Iezane succeeded Yoshitsune as sesshō; and the dainagon Fujiwara no Tadatsune became sadaijin.Titsingh, pp. 228-229; Brown, pp. 339-341.
- 1206 (Ken'ei 1, 12th month): Konoe Iezane ceases to function as sesshō (regent); and instead, he becomes kampaku (chancellor).Titsingh, p. 229.
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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. {{ISBN|978-0-520-03460-0}}; [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5145872 OCLC 5145872]
- Kitagawa, Hiroshi and Bruce T. Tsuchida, eds. (1975). The Tale of the Heike. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press. {{ISBN|9784130870245}}; {{ISBN|9784130870238}}; {{ISBN|9780860081883}}; {{ISBN|9780860081890}}; [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/193064639 OCLC 193064639]
- 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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