Enbun
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Enbun (延文), also transcribed Embun,
Nanboku-chō overview
During the
Until the end of the Edo period, the militarily superior pretender-Emperors supported by the Ashikaga shogunate had been mistakenly incorporated in Imperial chronologies despite undisputed recognition that the Imperial Regalia were not in their possession.[4]
This illegitimate Northern Court (北朝, hokuchō) had been established in Kyoto by Ashikaga Takauji.[4]
Change of era
- 1356, also called Enbun gannen (延文元年): The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Bunna 5.[5]
In this time frame, Shōhei (1346–1370) was the Southern Court equivalent nengō.
Events of the Enbun era
- 1356 (Enbun 1, 7th month): Minamoto no Michisuke was advanced from the court rank of dainagon to naidaijin.[6]
- 1356 (Enbun 1, 7th month): Ashikaga Yoshinori is raised to the second rank of the third class in the court hierarchy.[7]
- 1357 (Enbun 2, 2nd month): Emperor Go-Murakami, who had captured former-Emperor Kōgon, former-Emperor Kōmyō and former-Emperor Sukō in 1352, released all three of them and permitted their return from Yoshino to Kyoto.[7]
- 1358 (Enbun 3): Death of Ashikaga Takauji;[8] Ashikaga Yoshiakira appointed shōgun; dissention and defections in shogunate.[9]
Notes
- ^ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric et al. (2005). "Embun" in Japan encyclopedia, p. 175; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File.
- ^ Nussbaum, p. 175; n.b., ignoring typo -- era continues until March 1361 per NengoCalc Archived September 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, and see Nussbaum, Kōan, p. 535.
- ^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 302-305; Nussbaum, p. 175.
- ^ a b c Thomas, Julia Adeney. (2001). Reconfiguring modernity: concepts of nature in Japanese political ideology, p. 199 n57, citing Mehl, Margaret. (1997). History and the State in Nineteenth-Century Japan. p. 140-147.
- ^ Titsingh, p. 302.
- daijō daijinin 1366-1368.
- ^ a b Titsingh, p. 303.
- ^ Titsingh, p. 304.
- ^ Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982) Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron, p.329.
References
- ISBN 978-0-7022-1485-1
- Mehl, Margaret. (1997). History and the State in Nineteenth-Century Japan. New York:
- Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge:
- Thomas, Julia Adeney. (2001). Reconfiguring Modernity: Concepts of Nature in Japanese Political Ideology. Berkeley: OCLC 47916285
- Nihon Odai Ichiran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC 5850691
External links
- National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection