Ryakuō Explained
was a Japanese era of the Northern Court during the Era of Northern and Southern Courts,[1] after Kenmu and before Kōei, lasting from August 1338 to April 1342.[2] The emperor in Kyoto was .[3] Go-Kōgon's Southern Court rival in Yoshino during this time-frame was .
Nanboku-chō overview
During the Meiji period, an Imperial decree dated March 3, 1911 established that the legitimate reigning monarchs of this period were the direct descendants of Emperor Go-Daigo through Emperor Go-Murakami, whose had been established in exile in Yoshino, near Nara.[4]
Until the end of the Edo period, the militarily superior pretender-Emperors supported by the Ashikaga shogunate had been mistakenly incorporated in Imperial chronologies despite the undisputed fact that the Imperial Regalia were not in their possession.[4]
This illegitimate had been established in Kyoto by Ashikaga Takauji.[4]
Change of era
- 1338 : The era name was changed to Ryakuō to mark an event or a number of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in Kenmu 5.[5]
Events of the Ryakuō Era
- 1340 (Ryakuō 3): Observations of the "broom star" (comet) are recorded.[6]
Southern Court Equivalents
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Notes and References
- Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 294-296.
- Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Ryakuō" in Japan encyclopedia, p. 796; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File .
- Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 294-297; Nussbaum, p. 541.
- Thomas, Julia Adeney. (2001). Reconfiguring modernity: concepts of nature in Japanese political ideology, p. 199 n57, citing Mehl, Margaret. (1997). History and the State in Nineteenth-Century Japan. p. 140-147.
- Titsingh, p. 294.
- Pankenier, David. (1999).
