Kyōroku

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Kyōroku (享禄) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,, lit. "year name") after Daiei and before Tenbun. This period spanned the years from August 1528 to July 1532.^[1] The reigning emperor was Go-Nara-tennō (後奈良天皇).^[2]

Change of era

• 1528 Kyōroku gannen (享禄元年): The era name was changed to mark the enthronement of Emperor Go-Nara. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in Daiei 8, the 20th day of the 8th month.

This nengō takes its name from the I Ching: "He who sits on the Imperial Throne enjoys Heaven's Favor (居天位享天禄).

Events of the Kyōroku era

Statues were blackened in fire at Yakushi-ji in 1528.

• 1528 (Kyōroku 1): Fire damaged Yakushi-ji in Nara.^[3]
• 1528 (Kyōroku 1): Former kampaku Konoe Tanye became sadaijin. The former naidaijin, Minamoto-no Mitsikoto, becomes the udaijin. Former dainagon Kiusho Tanemitsi becomes naidaijin.^[4]
• 1529 (Kyōroku 2): Neo-Confucian scholar Wang Yangming died.^[5]
• 1530 (Kyōroku 3, 7th month): The former-kampaku Kiyusho Hisatsune died at the age of 63.^[4]
• 1531 (Kyōroku 4): The Kamakura shogunate office of shugo (governor) is abolished.^[6]
• 1532 (Kyōroku 5): Followers of the Ikko sect were driven out of Kyoto; and they settled in Osaka.^[7]

Notes

References

• Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Roth, Käthe. (2005). Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 48943301
• Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Nihon Odai Ichiran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC 5850691

External links

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