Anna (era)

Anna (安和, Anna^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Kōhō and before Tenroku. This period spanned the years from 964 through 968. The reigning emperors were Reizei-tennō (冷泉天皇, Reizei-tennō^?) and En'yū-tennō (円融天皇, En'yū-tennō^?).^[1]

Change of era

• Anna gannen (安和元年, Anna gannen^?); 968: The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Kōhō 4, on the 15th day of the 8th month of 968.^[2].

  Events of the Anna era

  • Anna 1, in the 6th month (968): Fujiwara no Saneyori (藤原実頼, Fujiwara no Saneyori^?) was created kampaku.^[3]
    • Anna 1, in the 6th month (968):
    • Anna 2, in the 10th month (969): The sadaijin Fujiwara no Morotada (藤原師尹, Fujiwara no Morotada^?) died.^[4]
      • Anna 2, in the 12th month (969): The kampaku Saneyori celebrated his 70th birthday.^[4]

        References

        1. ^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales ds empereurs du japon, pp. 144-148; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 299-300; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki, pp. 191-192.
        2. ^ Brown, p. 298.
        3. ^ Titsingh, p. 142.
        4. ^ ^{a b} Titsingh, p. 144.

        
        

        
        

        • 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

        
        

        Anna	1st	2nd	3rd
        Gregorian	968	969	970

        Preceded by: Kōhō

        Era or nengō: Anna

        Succeeded by: Tenroku

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