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Kakitsu (嘉吉, Kakitsu?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,?, lit. "year name") after Eikyō and before Bun'an. This period spanned the years from 1441 through 1444. The reigning emperor was Go-Hanazono-tennō (後花園天皇, Go-Hanazono-tennō?).[1]
Change of era
- Kakitsu gannen (嘉吉元年,, Kakitsu gannen?); 1451: The era name was changed to mark an event or a number of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in Eikyō 13.
Events of the Kakitsu era
- Kakitsu 1, on the 24th day of the 6th month (1441): Shogun Ashikaga Yoshinori is murdered at age 48 by Akamatsu Mitsusuke; and shortly thereafter, his 8-year-old son, Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, is proclaimed as the new Shogun.[2]
- Kakitsu 1, in the 9th month (1441): The murderers of Yoshinori kill themselves.[3]
- Kakitsu 3, on the 21 day of the 7th month (1443): Shogun Yoshikatsu died at the age of 10. He liked riding horses very much; but he was gravely injured in a fall from a horse. This was the cause of his death. He had been shogun for only three years. His 8-year-old brother, Ashikaga Yoshinari, was then named shogun.[4]
- Kakitsu 3, on the 23rd day of the 9th month (1443): An armed group of rebels penetrated the palace defenses. A fire was started and one of the men sought to kill Go-Hanazono, but the emperor escaped. However, the intruders managed to steal the Three Sacred Treasures -- the mirror, the sword and the jewel. Later, a guard found the mirror and a priest found the sword, but the location of jewel was not known until the the 8th month of Bunnan gannen.[5]
References
- ^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, pp. 331-343.
- ^ Titsingh, p. 339.
- ^ Titsingh, p. 341.
- ^ Titsingh, P. 342.
- ^ Titsingh, pp. 344-345.
- 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)
External links
ja:嘉吉 uk:Какіцу
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