Shōji (era) explained

was a after Kenkyū and before Kennin. This period spanned the years from April 1199 through February 1201.^[1] The reigning emperor was .^[2]

Change of era

• 1199 : 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 Kenkyū 10, on the 27th day of the 4th month of 1199.^[3]

Events of the Shōji era

• January 29, 1199 (Shōji 2, 12th day of the 2nd month): Oyama Tomomasa was appointed to the shugo post of Harima Province and as governor of Heian-kyō.^[4]
• 1200 (Shōji 2, 10th month): Hōjō Tokimasa was created daimyō of Ōmi Province.^[5]
• 1201 (Shōji 3, New Year's Day): Beginning of the Kennin Rebellion.^[6]

References

• Brown, Delmer and Ichiro Ishida. (1979). The Future and the Past: a translation and study of the 'Gukanshō', an interpretative history of Japan written in 1219. Berkeley: University of California Press. ; OCLC 5145872
• Kitagawa, Hiroshi and Bruce T. Tsuchida, eds. (1975). The Tale of the Heike. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press. ; ; ; ; OCLC 193064639
• Mass, Jeffrey. (1976) The Kamakura Bakufu: A Study in Documents. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ; OCLC 246494466
• Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ; OCLC 58053128
• Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Nihon Ōdai 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. ; OCLC 6042764

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Shōji" in Japan encyclopedia, p. 882; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File .
2. Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 221–224; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, p. 340; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki. p. 221.
3. Brown, p. 340.
4. Titsingh, p. 223; Mass, Jeffrey. (1976) The Kamakura Bakufu: A Study in Documents, p. 158.
5. Titsingh, p. 224.
6. Web site: 坂額御前（上）鎌倉幕府に弓を…「美女」が戦った時代があった . Hangaku Gozen (above) A bow to the Kamakura Shogunate ... There was a time when "beautiful women" fought. . . Japanese . 22 June 2015 . 22 September 2021.