Kenryaku
{{Short description|Period of Japanese history (1211–1213 CE)}}
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{{nihongo|Kenryaku|建暦|}} was a {{nihongo|Japanese era name|年号|nengō|lit. "year name"}} after Jōgen and before Kempo. This period spanned the years from March 1211 through December 1213.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Kenryaku" in [https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC&pg=PA510 Japan encyclopedia, p. 510]; 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|Juntoku-tennō|順徳天皇}}.Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, pp. 230-238; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 341-343; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki. pp. 221-223.
Change of era
- 1211 {{nihongo|Kenryaku gannen|建暦元年}}: The new era name was created because the previous era ended and a new one commenced in Jōgen 2, on the 9th day of the 3rd month of 1211.Brown, p. 341.
Events of the ''Kenryaku'' era
- 1211 (Kenryaku 1, 1st month): Shōgun Minamoto no Sanetomo's position at court was raised to the 1st rank of the 3rd class.Titsingh, p. 230.
- 1211 (Kenryaku 1, 1st month): The Buddhist priest Hōnen returned to Kyoto from a period of exile. He was the founder and guiding force behind the early development of the {{nihongo|Sennyū-ji|泉涌寺,|Sennyū-ji}} temple-complex.
- January 12, 1212 (Kenryaku 2, 20th day of the 12th month): The Buddhist priest Hōnen died at age 80, mere days after drafting a brief, written summary of his life teachings. This last written document is known as the One-Sheet Document (ichimai-kishomon).Titsigh, p. 231; [http://www.jodo.org/teachings/teachings02.html Jodo Shu web site] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160414101520/http://www.jodo.org/teachings/teachings02.html |date=2016-04-14 }}
- 1212 (Kenryaku 2, 16th day of the 1st month): The former-Senior High Priest Jien (1155–1225) was appointed Tendai Abbot by Imperial Mandate. He would administer Mt. Hiei for one year before yielding the position on the 11th day of the 1st month of 1213.Brown, p. 342.
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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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