Module:Ōwa

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Change of era

January 20, 961 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Yesno' not found.: The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Tentoku 5, on the 16th day of the 2nd month.^[3]

Events of the Ōwa era

961 (Ōwa 1, 11th month): Emperor Murakami moved into a newly constructed palace. The former palace had to be re-built after the destructive fire of Tentoku 5 (960).^[4]
962 (Ōwa 2, 2nd month): The emperor sent deputies to make offerings at number of Shinto shrines—at Ise, at Kamo, at Mizunoo, at Hirano, and at Kasuga.^[4]
962 (Ōwa 2, 8th month): Fujiwara no Saneyori went to offer prayers at the Iwashimizu Shrine; and many from the Fujiwara clan followed his example.^[4]

Notes

↑ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Ōwa" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 767, p. 767, at Google Books; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File.
↑ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales ds empereurs du japon, pp. 139–141; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 295–298; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki, pp. 183–190.
↑ Brown, p. 297.
↑ ^{Jump up to: 4.0} ^4.1 ^4.2 Titsingh, p. 141.

References

Brown, Delmer M. and Ichirō Ishida, eds. (1979). Gukanshō: The Future and the Past. Berkeley: University of California Press. Template:ISBN; OCLC 251325323
Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Template:ISBN; 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
Varley, H. Paul. (1980). A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa. New York: Columbia University Press. Template:ISBN; OCLC 6042764

External links

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

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[1] Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Ōwa" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 767, p. 767, at Google Books; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File.

[2] Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales ds empereurs du japon, pp. 139–141; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 295–298; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki, pp. 183–190.

[3] Brown, p. 297.

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