Genka calendar

Genka calendar (元嘉暦, Genka-reki), also known as Yuan-chia li or Yuan-jia li, was a Japanese lunisolar calendar (genka reki).[1] It was used from 604 to 696.[2]

History

The calendar was created in 425 during the Genka era in Chinese history.[3]

The Genka-reki system was brought to Japan from Korea by a Buddhist monk.[4] The earliest record of this calendar in Japan is in the 10th month of the 10th year of the reign of Empress Suiko (602).[3]

Dates in the Nihon Shoki before the late 7th century were likely recorded using the Genka calendar system.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Calendar" in Japan Encyclopedia, pp. 98-99; Reischauer, Robert Karl (1937). Early Japanese history, pp. 140, 162.
  2. ↑ Nussbaum, "Genka-reki" at p. 238; Bramsen, William. (1880). Japanese chronological tables, p. 25.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Japan, Monbushō. (1876). An outline history of Japanese education: prepared for the Philadelphia International Exhibition, 1876, p. 160.
  4. ↑ Needham, Joseph. (1959). Science and civilisation in China, Mathematics and the sciences of the heavens and the earth, Vol. 3, p. 391 note d.
  5. ↑ Barnes, Gina Lee. (2007). State Formation in Japan: Emergence of a 4th-Century Ruling Elite, p. 226 n.5.

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