Genkyu
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was a after Kennin
and before Ken'ei. This period spanned the years from February 1204 through April 1206. The reigning emperor was .
Kennin
was a after Shōji and before Genkyū. This period spanned the years from February 1201 through February 1204. The reigning emperor was .-Change of era:...
and before Ken'ei. This period spanned the years from February 1204 through April 1206. The reigning emperor was .
Change of era
- 1204 : 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 Kennin 4, on the 20th day of the 2nd month of 1204.
Events of the Genkyū era
- 1204 (Genkyū 1, 10th month): Minamoto no SanetomoMinamoto no SanetomoMinamoto no Sanetomo was the third shogun of the Kamakura shogunate Sanetomo was the second son of the founder of the Kamakura shogunate Minamoto no Yoritomo, his mother was Hōjō Masako, and his older brother was the second Kamakura shogun Minamoto no Yoriie.His childhood name was...
ordered Hōjō Masanori, Hōjō Tomomichi and Hatakeyama Shigeyasu to travel to Heian-kyo. These three were charged with escorting the daughter of dainagon Fujiwara-no Noboukiyo to Kamakura where she woould marry Sanetomo. - 1204 (Genkyū 1, 12th month): Two of Sanetomo's emissaries returned to Kanto with his bride-to-be; but Shigeyasu remained in Heian-kyo where he died.
- 1205 (Genkyū 2, 3rd month): Kyoto and the provinces of the KinaiKinaiis a Japanese term denoting an ancient division of the country. Kinai is a name for the ancient provinces around the capital Nara and Heian-kyō. The five provinces were called go-kinai after 1760....
were devastated by a terrible storm; and at the time, the disaster was deemed to have been caused by the Budhist priest EisaiEisaiMyōan Eisai was a Japanese Buddhist priest, credited with bringing the Rinzai school of Zen Buddhism and green tea from China to Japan. He is often known simply as Eisai Zenji , literally "Zen master Eisai"....
in consequence of his having brought the ZenZenZen is a school of Mahāyāna Buddhism founded by the Buddhist monk Bodhidharma. The word Zen is from the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese word Chán , which in turn is derived from the Sanskrit word dhyāna, which can be approximately translated as "meditation" or "meditative state."Zen...
school of Buddhism to the capital. Eisai was chased out of Kyoto, but in time, he was permitted to return.
External links
- National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection
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Preceded by: Kennin Kennin was a after Shōji and before Genkyū. This period spanned the years from February 1201 through February 1204. The reigning emperor was .-Change of era:... |
Era or nengō Japanese era name The Japanese era calendar scheme is a common calendar scheme used in Japan, which identifies a year by the combination of the and the year number within the era... : Genkyū |
Succeeded by: Ken'ei |