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Jishō (治承) was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō, "year name") after Angen and before Yōwa. This period spanned the years from August 1177 through July 1181.^[1] The reigning emperors were Takakura-tennō (高倉天皇) and Antoku-tennō (安徳天皇).^[2]

Change of era

1177 Jishō gannen (治承元年): 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 Angen 3, on the 4th day of the 8th month of 1177.^[3]

Events of the Jishō era

1177 (Jishō 1, 28th day of the 4th month): A great fire in the capital was spread by high winds; and the palace was reduced to cinders.^[4]
1178 (Jishō 2, 12th day of the 11th month): Emperor Takakura's consort, Tokuko, gives birth to an infant who will become Emperor Antoku.^[5]
1180 (Jishō 4, 21st day of the 2nd month): Emperor Takakura abdicates.^[5]
1180 (Jishō 4, 21st day of the 4th month): In the 12th year of Takakura-tennō's reign (高倉天皇12年), the emperor was forced to abdicate; and the succession (senso) was received by his infant son, the grandson of Taira Kiyomori.^[6]
1180 (Jishō 4, 22nd day of the 4th month): Emperor Antoku's is said to have acceded to the throne (sokui) on the day of his coronation ceremony.^[7]
1180 (Jishō 4, 2nd day of the 6th month): Former-Emperor Go-Shirakawa-in, former-emperor Takakura-in and Emperor Antoku leave Kyoto for Fukuhara, which is near modern-day Kōbe, Hyōgo.^[5]
1180 (Jishō 4, 26th day of the 11th month): The capital is moved back to Kyoto from Fukuhara.^[8]
1180 (Jishō 4): A devastating whirlwind causes havoc in Heian-kyō, the capital.^[9]
1181 (Jishō 5, 14th day of the 1st month): Emperor Takakura dies.^[5]
1181 (Jishō 5, 25th day of the 4th month): Battle of Sunomata-gawa

References

^ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Jishō" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 425, p. 425, at Google Books; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File Archived 2012-05-24 at archive.today.
^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, pp. 195–200; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 330–333; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki. pp. 212–214.
^ Brown, p. 332.
^ Titsigh, p. 198; Kitagawa, H. (1975). The Tale of the Heike, p. 783; Kamo no Chōmei. (1212). Hōjōki.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Kitagawa, H. (1975). The Tale of the Heike, p. 784.
^ Titsingh, p. 200; Brown, p. 333; Kitagawa, p. 784; 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 Emperor Go-Murakami.
^ Kitagawa, p. 784; Varley, p. 44.
^ Kitagawa, p. 785.
^ Kamo no Chōmei. (1212). Hōjōki.