Shitoku
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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 Script error: No such module "Nihongo". had been established in exile in Yoshino, near Nara.[3]
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.[3]
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Southern Court Equivalents: Genchū
Change of era
- 1384, also called Script error: No such module "Nihongo".: The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Eitoku 4.
In this time frame, Genchū (1384–1393) was the Southern Court equivalent nengō.[4]
Events of the Shitoku era
- 1384 (Shitoku 1, 3rd month): Shōgun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu gave up his court position as General of the Left (sadaish).[4]
- 1385 (Shitoku 2, 8th month): Yoshimistu made a public visit to Kasuga-taisha.[4]
- 1385 (Shitoku 2): Southern army defeated at Koga.[5]
- 1386 (Shitoku 3, 7th month): Yoshimitsu authorized the Five Mountain System for ranking state-sponsored Buddhist temples; and Nanzen-ji was ranked at the top and in a class of its own.[6]
- 1387-89: Dissension is growing in Toki family of Mino.[5]
Notes
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- ↑ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Shitoku" in Japan encyclopedia, p. 875; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File Template:Webarchive.
- ↑ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 317.
- ↑ a b c 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.
- ↑ a b c Titsingh, p. 317.
- ↑ a b Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982) Lessons from History: The "Tokushi Yoron", p. 329.
- ↑ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, p. 317.
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References
- Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982) Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press. Template:ISBN
- Mehl, Margaret. (1997). History and the State in Nineteenth-Century Japan. New York: St Martin's Press. Template:ISBN; OCLC 419870136
- Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Template:ISBN; OCLC 48943301
- Thomas, Julia Adeney. (2001). Reconfiguring Modernity: Concepts of Nature in Japanese Political Ideology. Berkeley: University of California Press. Template:ISBN; Template:Catalog lookup link
- 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
External links
- National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection