Kōji (Heian period)

Kōji (康治) was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō, lit. "year name") after Eiji and before Ten'yō. This period spanned the year from April 1142 through February 1144.[1] The reigning emperor was Konoe-tennō (近衛天皇).[2]

Change of Era

  • January 29, 1142 Kōji gannen (康治元年): The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in Eiji 2, on the 28th day of the 4th month of 1142.[3]

Events of the Kōji Era

Notes

  1. ^ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Kōji" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 545, p. 545, 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.
  2. ^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des emepereurs du japon, pp. 186-188; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 324-326; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki, p. 205.
  3. ^ Brown, p. 325.
  4. ^ a b Titsingh, p. 186.

References

  • Brown, Delmer M. and Ichirō Ishida, eds. (1979). Gukanshō: The Future and the Past. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-03460-0; OCLC 251325323
  • Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128
  • 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
  • Varley, H. Paul. (1980). A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231049405; OCLC 6042764
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Kōji
1142–1144 		Succeeded by


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