Editing Module:Ōtoku (section)

==Events of the ''Ōtoku'' Era==
* '''1084''' (''Ōtoku 1, 9th month''): The [[Fujiwara no Kenshi (1057–1084)|empress Kenshi]], the emperor's principal consort, died. Shirakawa was afflicted with great grief, and for a time, he turned over the administration of the government to his ministers.<ref name="t171">Titsingh, [https://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&dq=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran&pg=PP9  p. 171.]</ref>
* '''1086''' (''Ōtoku 3, 9th month''): Shirakawa announced his intention to abdicate in favor of his son.<ref name="t171"/>
* '''January 3, 1087''' (''Ōtoku 3, 26th day of the 11th month'')<!-- NengoCalc 応徳三年十一月二十六日  -->: Shirakawa formally abdicated,<ref name="b316" /> and he took the title ''[[Daijō-tennō]].''<ref name="t171"/> Shirakawa had personally occupied the throne for 14 years; and for the next 43 years, he would exercise broad powers in what will come to be known as [[cloistered rule]].<ref>Varley, p. 202</ref>