was a after ''
Tentoku'' and before ''
Kōhō.'' This period spanned the years from February 961 through July 964. The reigning emperor was .
Change of era
* January 20, 961 : The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in ''Tentoku'' 5, on the 16th day of the 2nd month.
[Brown, p. 297.]
Events of the ''Ōwa'' era
* 961 (''Ōwa 1, 11th month''): Emperor Murakami moved into a newly constructed palace which had to be re-built after the destructive fire of ''Tentoku'' 5 (960).
[Titsingh]
p. 141.
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* 962 (''Ōwa 2, 2nd month''): The emperor sent deputies to make offerings at number of Shinto shrines—at Ise, at Kamo, at Mizunoo, at Hirano, and at Kasuga.
Notes
References
* Brown, Delmer M. and Ichirō Ishida, eds. (1979)
''Gukanshō: The Future and the Past''.
Berkeley: University of California Press.
OCLC 251325323
* Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005)
''Japan encyclopedia''.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
OCLC 58053128
* Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). ''Nihon Ōdai Ichiran
, ', is a 17th-century chronicle of the serial reigns of Japanese emperors with brief notes about some of the noteworthy events or other happenings.
According to the 1871 edition of the ''American Cyclopaedia'', the 1834 French translation of ...
''; 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 is the national library of Japan and among the largest libraries in the world. It was established in 1948 for the purpose of assisting members of the in researching matters of public policy. The library is similar in purpose and scope to ...
, "The Japanese Calendar
-- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection
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