Ōwa

Ōwa (応和, Ōwa^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Tentoku and before Kōhō. This period spanned the years from 961 through 964. The reigning emperor was Murakami-tennō (村上天皇, Murakami-tennō^?).^[1]

Change of era

• Ōwa gannen (応和元年, Ōwa gannen^?); 961: 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.^[2].

  Events of the Ōwa era

  • Ōwa 1, in the 11th month (961): Emperor Murakami moved in to a the newly constructed palace which had to be re-built after the destructive fire of Tentoku 5 (960).^[3]
    • Ōwa 2, in the 2nd month (962): The emperor sent deputies to make offerings at number of Shinto shrines -- at Ise, at Kamo, at Mizunoo, at Hirano, and at Kasuga.^[3]
      • Ōwa 2, in the 8th month (962): Fujiwara no Saneyori went to offer prayers at the Iwashimizu Shrine; and many from the Fujiwara clan followed his example.^[3]

        References

        1. ^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales ds empereurs du japon, pp. 139-142; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 295-298; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki, pp. 183-190.
        2. ^ Brown, p. 297.
        3. ^ ^{a b c} Titsingh, p. 141.

        
        

        
        

        • 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
        • Titsingh, Isaac. (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 Society 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

        External links

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

        
        

        Ōwa	1st	2nd	3rd	4th
        Gregorian	961	962	963	964

        Preceded by: Tentoku

        Era or nengō: Ōwa

        Succeeded by: Kōhō

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