was a after ''
Chōgen
was a after '' Manju'' and before ''Chōryaku.'' This period spanned the years from July 1028 through April 1037. The reigning emperors were and .
Change of era
* 1028 : The new era name ''Chōgen'' was created to mark and event or series of ...
'' and before ''
Chōkyū
was a after ''Chōryaku'' and before ''Kantoku.'' This period spanned the years from November 1040 through November 1044. The reigning emperor was .
Change of era
* 1040 : The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The ...
.'' This period spanned the years from April 1037 through 1040. The reigning emperor was .
Change of era
* 1037 : The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in ''Chōgen'' 10, on the 21st day of the 4th month of 1037.
[Brown, p. 311.]
Events of the ''Chōryaku'' era
* 1037 (''Chōryaku 1, 2nd day of the 7th month''): The eldest son of Emperor Go-Suzaku (Prince Chikihito, who was would become Emperor Go-Reizei) has his coming of age ceremony.
* 1037 (''Chōryaku 1, 17th day of the 8th month''): Go-Suzaku formally names Chikihito as his heir and Crown Prince.
* 1038 (''Chōryaku 2, 1st day of the 9th month''): Fujiwara no Chikaie was killed by a servant during an attempted robbery; and all the greats of the Fujiwara went into mourning.
[''Monumenta Nipponica,'' Vol. 59, p. 399.]
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 Odai Ichiran
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
''; 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
Japanese eras
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