Editing Module:Kōan (Kamakura period) (section)

==Change of era==
* '''1278''' {{nihongo|''Kōan gannen''|弘安元年}}: 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 ''Kenji'' 4. The era name comes from the ''Veritable Records of the [[Emperor Taizong of Tang]]'' and combines the characters {{linktext|弘}} ("broad") and {{linktext|安}} ("peaceful"). It should not be confused with the later [[Kōan (Muromachi period)|Kōan era of 1361–62]], which used a different character for ''kō'' ({{linktext|康}}, "peace").