Ninji

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Ninji (仁治, Ninji^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after En'ō and before Kangen. This period spanned the years from 1240 to 1243. The reigning emperors were Shijō-tennō (四条天皇, Shijō-tennō^?) and Go-Saga-tennō (後嵯峨天皇, Go-Saga-tennō^?).^[1]

Change of era

• Ninji gannen (仁治元年, Ninji gannen^?); 1240: The era name was changed to mark an event or a number of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in En'ō 2.

Events of the Ninji Era

• Ninji 1 (1240):
• Ninji 3, on the 10th day of the 1st month (1242): In the 10th year of Shijō-tennō's reign (四条天皇10年), the emperor died suddenly; and despite a dispute over who should follow him as sovereign, contemporary scholars then construed that the succession (‘‘senso’’)^[2] was received by the second son of former Emperor Tsuchimikado.^[3]
  • Ninji 3, in the 5th month (1242): Emperor Go-Saga is said to have acceded to the throne (‘‘sokui’’).^[4]

    References

    1. ^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, pp. 245-247; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki. p. 228-231.
    2. ^ Varley, p. 44. [A distinct act of senso is unrecognized prior to Emperor Tenji; and all sovereigns except Jitō, Yōzei, Go-Toba, and Fushimi have senso and sokui in the same year until the reign of Go-Murakami.]
    3. ^ Titsingh, pp. 244-245; Varley, p. 228.
    4. ^ Titsingh, p. 245; Varley, p. 44.

    
    

    
    

    • 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

    
    

    Ninji	1st	2nd	3rd	4th
    Gregorian	1240	1241	1242	1243

    Preceded by: En'ō

    Era or nengō: Ninji

    Succeeded by: Kangen

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