was a after ''
Shōryaku'' and before ''
Chōhō.'' This period spanned the years from February 995 through January 999. The reigning emperor was .
Change of era
* 995 : 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 ''Shōryaku'' 6, on 22 February 995.
Events of the ''Chōtoku'' era
* 995 (''Chōtoku 1''):
Fujiwara no Michinaga is given the office of ''
Udaijin''.
* 996 (''Chōtoku 2, 7th month''): Michinaga become ''
Sadaijin''; and Fujiwara no Akimitsu is named ''Udaijin''.
[Titsingh]
p. 153.
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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''; 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
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OCLC 6042764
External links
* National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar
-- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection
Japanese eras
990s in Japan
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