, also known as Taiei or Dai-ei, was a after '' Eishō'' and before ''

Kyōroku was a after ''Daiei'' and before ''Tenbun''. This era spanned from August 1528 to July 1532. The reigning emperor was . Change of era * 1528 : The era name was changed to mark the enthronement of Emperor Go-Nara. The previous era ended and a ...

.'' This period spanned the years from August 1521 through August 1528. The reigning emperors were and .

Change of era

* 1521 : The era name was changed because of the calamities of war and natural disasters. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in ''Eishō'' 18, on the 23rd day of the 8th month.

Events of the ''Daiei'' era

* January 24, 1525 (''Daiei 5, 1st day of the 1st month''): All ceremonies in the court were suspended because of the lack of funds to support them.Titsingh
p. 372.
/ref> * April 29, 1525 (''Daiei 5, 7th day of the 4th month''): Go-Kashiwabara died at the age of 63 years. He had reigned 26 years; that is, his reign lasted 3 years in the nengō ''Bunki'', 17 years in the nengō ''Eishō'', and 6 years in the nengo ''Daiei.'' The emperor was found dead in his archives. * May 25, 1526 (''Daiei 6, 14th day of the 4th month''):

Imagawa Ujichika was a Japanese ''daimyō'' of the Sengoku period. He was the 10th head of the Imagawa clan of Suruga Province. Ujichika was the son of Imagawa Yoshitada. He was the husband of Jukei-ni. Biography In 1476, Ujichika father, Yoshitada, invaded ...

, ''

Shugo , commonly translated as ' ilitarygovernor', 'protector', or 'constable', was a title given to certain officials in feudal Japan. They were each appointed by the shogun to oversee one or more of the provinces of Japan. The position gave way to th ...

'' of

Suruga Province was an Provinces of Japan, old province in the area that is today the central part of Shizuoka Prefecture. Suruga bordered on Izu Province, Izu, Kai Province, Kai, Sagami Province, Sagami, Shinano Province, Shinano, and Tōtōmi Province, Tōtōm ...

establishes 33-article Imagawa Family Code (Imagawa Kana List). * 1526 (''Daiei 6, 4th month''): Go-Nara was proclaimed emperor upon the death of his father,

Emperor Go-Kashiwabara was the 104th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. He reigned from November 16, 1500, to May 19, 1526. His personal name was Katsuhito (勝仁). His reign marked the nadir of Imperial authority during the Ashik ...

. He began his reign at age 31. * 1526 (''Daiei 6, 7th month''): An army from Awa province marched towards Miyako. Hosokawa Takakuni attacked these forces at the Karsouragawa River, but his forces were unsuccessful. Fusokawa Takakage came to the aid of Takakuni, and their combined forces were successful in stopping the advancing army.Titsingh
p. 373.
/ref> * 1526 (''Daiei 6, 12th month''): Shōgun

Ashikaga Yoshiharu was the twelfth ''shōgun'' of the Ashikaga shogunate from 1521 through 1546 during the late Muromachi period of Japan.Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982). ''Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron'', p. 332. He was the son of the eleventh ''shōgun'' As ...

invited archers from neighboring provinces to come to the capital for an archery contest. * 1527 (''Daiei 6, 12th month''): Large-scale mining operations commenced at the

Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine The was an underground silver mine in the city of Ōda, in Shimane Prefecture on the main island of Honshu, Japan. It was the largest silver mine in Japanese history. It was active for almost four hundred years, from its discovery in 1526 to it ...

in what is now

Shimane Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Shimane Prefecture is the List of Japanese prefectures by population, second-least populous prefecture of Japan at 665,205 (February 1, 2021) and has a ge ...

.Japan Mint, Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine Coin Set

Notes

References

* Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). ''Japan Encyclopedia''. Cambridge:

Harvard University Press Harvard University Press (HUP) is an academic publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University. It is a member of the Association of University Presses. Its director since 2017 is George Andreou. The pres ...

.
OCLC 48943301
* 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

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, "The Japanese Calendar
-- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection
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