Hōji

Hōji (宝治, Hōji^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Kangen and before Kenchō. This period spanned the years from 1247 to 1249. The reigning emperors were Go-Saga-tennō (後嵯峨天皇, Go-Saga-tennō^?) and Fukakusa-tennō (後深草天皇, Fukakusa-tennō^?).^[1]

Change of era

• Hōji gannen (宝治元年, Hōji gannen^?); 1247: 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 Kangen 5.

Events of the Hōji era

• Hōji 1 (1247):

References

• 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

External links

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