Kenji (era)

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Change of era

  • 1275 Script error: No such module "Nihongo".: 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 Bun'ei 12. The era name comes from the Rites of Zhou and combines the characters Template:Linktext ("build, establish") and Template:Linktext ("govern").

Events of the Kenji era

  • 1275 (Kenji 1): The Mongols sent an ambassador to Kamakura along with the delegation which accompanied the envoy from the Goryeo. The unwelcome visitor was put to death; and his severed head was publicly displayed.[3]
  • November 23, 1275 (Kenji 1, 5th day of the 11th month): Hirohito-shinnō was named Crown Prince and heir to his first cousin, the Daikakuji-tō Emperor Go-Uda. This was the result of political maneuvering by Hirohito's father, the Jimyōin-tō Emperor Go-Fukakusa.[4]
  • 1277 (Kenji 3, 5th month): Yoshimasa laid down his office.[5]

Notes

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  1. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Kenji" in Template:Trim&pg=PA509 Japan Encyclopedia, p. 509, p. 509, at Google Books; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File Template:Webarchive.
  2. Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, pp. 262-268; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki. p. 233-237.
  3. Titsingh, pp. 258-259 n1.
  4. Titsingh, Template:Trim&pg=PA262 p. 262, 270., p. 262, at Google Books
  5. Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982). Lessons from History: the Tokushi Yoron, p. 172.

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