Yōwa (養和, Yōwa?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,?, lit. "year name") after Jishō and before Juei. This period spanned the years from 1181 through 1182. The reigning emperor was Antoku-tennō (安徳天皇, Antoku-tennō?).1
Change of era
- Yōwa gannen (養和元年, Yōwa gannen?); 1181: 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 Jishō 5, on the 14th day of the 7th month of 1181.2
Events of the Yōwa era
- Yōwa 1, 25th day of the 11th month (1181): Tokuko, former consort of the late Emperor Takakura, adopts the name of Kenreimon-in.3
- Yōwa 1 (1181): A famine that lasting two years blights this era.4
References
- ^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, pp. 200-207; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 333-334; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki. pp. 214-215.
- ^ Brown, p. 333.
- ^ Kitagawa, H. (1975). The Tale of the Heike, p. 783.
- ^ Kamo no Chōmei. (1212). Hōjōki.
- Brown, Delmer and Ichiro Ishida, eds. (1979). [ Jien, c. 1220], Gukanshō; "The Future and the Past: a translation and study of the 'Gukanshō,' an interpretive history of Japan written in 1219" translated from the Japanese and edited by Delmer M. Brown & Ichirō Ishida. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-03460-0
- Kitagawa, Hiroshi and Bruce T. Tsuchida, eds. (1975). The Tale of the Heike. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press. ISBN 0-86008-128-1
- Titsingh, Isaac, ed. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō, 1652], Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon, tr. par M. Isaac Titsingh avec l'aide de plusieurs interprètes attachés au comptoir hollandais de Nangasaki; ouvrage re., complété et cor. sur l'original japonais-chinois, accompagné de notes et précédé d'un Aperçu d'histoire mythologique du Japon, par M. J. Klaproth. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.... Click link for digitized, full-text copy of this book (in French)
- Varley, H. Paul , ed. (1980). [ Kitabatake Chikafusa, 1359], Jinnō Shōtōki ("A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa" translated by H. Paul Varley). New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-04940-4
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