Jōji
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Jōji (貞治) was a
Ōan. This period spanned the years from September 1362 through February 1368.[1] The emperor in Kyoto was Emperor Go-Kōgon (後光厳天皇, Go-Kōgon-tennō).[2] Go-Kōgon's Southern Court rival in Yoshino during this time-frame was Emperor Go-Murakami
(後村上天皇, Go-Murakami-tennō).
Nanboku-chō overview
During the
Yoshino, near Nara.[3]
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 the undisputed fact that the Imperial Regalia were not in their possession.[3]
This illegitimate Northern Court (北朝, hokuchō) had been established in Kyoto by Ashikaga Takauji.[3]
Change of era
- 1362, also called Jōji gannen (貞治元年): The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Kōan 2.
In this time frame, Shōhei (1346–1370) was a Southern Court equivalent nengō,
Events of the Jōji era
- 1362 (Jōji 1): The era begins with Ashikaga Yoshiakira in control of Kyoto.[4]
- 1365 (Jōji 4): Emperor Go-Daigo's son, Prince Kaneyoshi (also known as Kanenaga) gains control of Kyūshū.[4]
- 1367 (Jōji 6):
- 1368 (Jōji 7): Yoshiakira's son, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, becomes the third shōgun of what comest to be known as the Muromachi period.[6]
Notes
- ^ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Japan Encyclopedia, p. 430; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File[permanent dead link].
- ^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 302-308; 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.
- ^ a b c Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982) Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron, p.329.
- ^ Titsingh, p. 307.
- ^ Titsingh, p. 308.
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