was a after ''
Kanpō'' and before ''
Kan'en.'' This period spanned the years from February 1744 through July 1748. The reigning emperors were and .
[Titsingh, Isaac. (1834)]
''Annales des empereurs du japon'', pp. 417-418.
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Change of era
* 1744 : The new era of ''Enkyō'' (meaning "Becoming Prolonged") was created to mark the start of a new 60-year cycle of the Chinese zodiac
The Chinese zodiac is a traditional classification scheme based on the lunar calendar that assigns an animal and its reputed attributes to each year in a repeating twelve-year cycle. Originating from China, the zodiac and its variations remai ...
. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in ''Kampō 4'', on the
Events of ''Enkyō'' era
* 1744 (''Enkyō 1''): Great comet was visible in sky for many months; this comet is likely to have been what is today identified as C/1743 X1 (De Cheseaux).[Zhuang, T. (1988). ''Acta Astronomica Sinica'', v29:2, p. 208....Click link for online Harvard-Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System]
* 1745 (''Enkyō 2''): Tokugawa Ieshige
Tokugawa Ieshige; 徳川 家重 (January 28, 1712 – July 13, 1761) was the ninth '' shōgun'' of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan.
The first son of Tokugawa Yoshimune, his mother was the daughter of Ōkubo Tadanao, known as Osuma no kata ...
became shōgun of the Edo bakufu.[Titsingh]
p. 418.
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* 1745 (''Enkyō 2''): First establishment of a market fair in the capital was to be found at the temple of Hirano, in the Ōmi province
was a province of Japan, which today comprises Shiga Prefecture. It was one of the provinces that made up the Tōsandō circuit. Its nickname is . Under the ''Engishiki'' classification system, Ōmi was ranked as one of the 13 "great countri ...
.Edo
Edo ( ja, , , "bay-entrance" or "estuary"), also romanized as Jedo, Yedo or Yeddo, is the former name of Tokyo.
Edo, formerly a ''jōkamachi'' (castle town) centered on Edo Castle located in Musashi Province, became the ''de facto'' capital of ...
.