Kennin
{{Short description|Period of Japanese history (1201–1204 CE)}}
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{{nihongo|Kennin|建仁}} was a {{nihongo|Japanese era name|年号|nengō|lit. "year name"}} after Shōji and before Genkyū. This period spanned the years from February 1201 through February 1204.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Kennin" in [https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC&pg=PA509 Japan encyclopedia, p. 509]; 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. 221-227; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, p. 340; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki, pp. 220-221.
Change of era
- 1201 {{nihongo|Kennin gannen|建仁元年}}; 1201: The new era name was created to mark an event of shin'yū (辛酉), which is considered as the year of revolution in Sexagenary cycle. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in Shōji 3, on the 13th day of the 2nd month of 1201.Brown, p. 340.
Events of the ''Kennin'' era
- 1201 (Kennin 1, May): The Kennin Rebellion is defeated.{{cite web|url=https://www.sankei.com/article/20150704-ONSMTS3V35N4PKNXODBUFEABI4/ |title=坂額御前（下）「勇士を産め」と甲斐国へ 弓は百発百中、朝敵の美女 |trans-title=Hangaku Gozen (bottom) "Bring a brave man" to Kai Province. |work=Sankei Shimbun |language=Japanese |date=4 July 2015 |access-date=22 September 2021}}
- 1202 (Kennin 2, 1st month): Nitta Yoshishige, the deputy director for cuisine of Dairi (大炊助) in Daijō-kan, died. His court rank had been of the second rank of the fifth class (従五位下).Titsingh, p. 225.
- 1202 (Kennin 2, 7th month): Minamoto no Yoriie was raised in the court's hierarchic standing to the second rank of the second class; and he was created the 2nd shōgun of the Kamakura shogunate.
- 1202 (Kennin 2, 10th month): Naidaijin Minamoto no Michichika died at 54; and his court position was then filled by dainagon Fujiwara no Takatada.
- 1202 (Kennin 2): On orders from Shōgun Minamoto no Yoriie, the monk Eisai founded Kennin-ji, a Zen temple and monastery in the Rinzai sect.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Kennin-ji" in [https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC&pg=PA509 Japan encyclopedia, p. 509.]
- 1203 (Kennin 3, 8th month): Shōgun Yoriie fell gravely ill.
- 1203 (Kennin 3, 9th month): Yoriie shaved his head and became a Buddhist priest; and the emperor named Minamoto no Sanetomo as the 3rd shōgun; and Hōjō Tokimasa became Sanetomo's shikken (regent).Titsingh, p. 226.
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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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