Jishō

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Jishō (治承) was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō, "year name") after Angen and before Yōwa. This period spanned the years from August 1177 through July 1181.^[1] The reigning emperors were Takakura-tennō (高倉天皇) and Antoku-tennō (安徳天皇).^[2]

Change of era

• 1177 Jishō gannen (治承元年): 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 Angen 3, on the 4th day of the 8th month of 1177.^[3]

Events of the Jishō era

• 1177 (Jishō 1, 28th day of the 4th month): A great fire in the capital was spread by high winds; and the palace was reduced to cinders.^[4]
• 1178 (Jishō 2, 12th day of the 11th month): Emperor Takakura's consort, Tokuko, gives birth to an infant who will become Emperor Antoku.^[5]
• 1180 (Jishō 4, 21st day of the 2nd month): Emperor Takakura abdicates.^[5]
• 1180 (Jishō 4, 21st day of the 4th month): In the 12th year of Takakura-tennō's reign (高倉天皇12年), the emperor was forced to abdicate; and the succession (senso) was received by his infant son, the grandson of Taira Kiyomori.^[6]
• 1180 (Jishō 4, 22nd day of the 4th month): Emperor Antoku's is said to have acceded to the throne (sokui) on the day of his coronation ceremony.^[7]
• 1180 (Jishō 4, 2nd day of the 6th month): Former-
  Kōbe, Hyōgo.^[5]
• 1180 (Jishō 4, 26th day of the 11th month): The capital is moved back to Kyoto from Fukuhara.[8]
• 1180 (Jishō 4): A devastating whirlwind causes havoc in Heian-kyō, the capital.^[9]
• 1181 (Jishō 5, 14th day of the 1st month): Emperor Takakura dies.^[5]
• 1181 (Jishō 5, 25th day of the 4th month): Battle of Sunomata-gawa

References

General

• Brown, Delmer M. and Ichirō Ishida, eds. (1979). Gukanshō: The Future and the Past. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  ISBN 978-0-520-03460-0; OCLC 251325323
• Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge:
  ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128
• Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Nihon Ōdai Ichiran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC 5850691
• ISBN 9780231049405; OCLC 6042764

• National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection