Yōwa
Yōwa (Japanese: 養和) was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō, lit. year name) after Jishō and before Juei. This period spanned the years from 1181 through 1182. The reigning emperor was Antoku-tennō (安徳天皇).
Change of Era
- Yōwa gannen (養和元年; 1181): 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 Jishō 5.
Events of the Yōwa Era
- Yōwa gannen or Yōwa 1, 25th day of the 11th month (1181): Tokuko, former consort of the late Emperor Takakura, adopts the name of Kenreimon-in.[1]
- Yōwa 1 (1181): A famine that lasting two years blights this era.[2]
References
- ^ Kitagawa, H. (1975). The Tale of the Heike, p. 783. [narrative in book 6, chapter 12 explains that that this event happens on the 24th day of the 12th month of Yōwa 1, but modern scholarship suggests that the 25th day of the 11th month of Yōwa 1 is likely more accurate]
- ^ Kamo no Chōmei. (1212). Hōjōki.
- Brown, Delmer and Ichiro Ishida, eds. (1979). [ Jien (1221)], Gukanshō; "The Future and the Past: a translation and study of the 'Gukanshō,' an interpretive history of Japan written in 1219" translated from the Japanese and edited by Delmer M. Brown & Ichirō Ishida. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-03460-0
- Kitagawa, Hiroshi and Bruce T. Tsuchida, eds. (1975). The Tale of the Heike. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press. ISBN 0-86008-128-1
- Titsingh, Isaac, ed. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo, 1652], Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon, tr. par M. Isaac Titsingh avec l'aide de plusieurs interprètes attachés au comptoir hollandais de Nangasaki; ouvrage re., complété et cor. sur l'original japonais-chinois, accompagné de notes et précédé d'un Aperçu d'histoire mythologique du Japon, par M. J. Klaproth. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.--Two digitized examples of this rare book have now been made available online: (1) from the library of the University of Michigan, digitized January 30, 2007; and (2) from the library of Stanford University, digitized June 23, 2006. Click here to read the original text in French.
- Varley, H. Paul , ed. (1980). [Kitabatake Chitafusa, 1359], Jinnō Shōtōki ("A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa" translated by H. Paul Varley). New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-04940-4
| Yōwa | 1st | 2nd |
| Gregorian | 1181 | 1182 |
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