was a after ''
Shōō'' and before ''
Shōan.'' This period spanned the years from August 1293 through April 1299. The reigning emperors were and .
Change of era
* 1293 : 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 ''Shō'ō'' 6.
Events of the ''Einen'' era
* August 30, 1298 (''Einin 6, 22nd day of the 7th month''): In the 11th year of Fushimi''-tennō''s reign (伏見天皇11年), the emperor abdicated; and the succession (''senso'') was received by his son.
* November 17, 1298 (''Einin 6, 13th day of the 10th month''): Emperor Go-Fushimi is said to have acceded to the throne (''sokui'') and the ''
nengō
The , also known as , is the first of the two elements that identify years in the Japanese era calendar scheme. The second element is a number which indicates the year number within the era (with the first year being ""), followed by the literal ...
'' was changed to ''
Shōan'' to mark the beginning of a new emperor's reign.
* 1299 (''Einin 7''): The 8th rector of the nunnery at
Hokkeji
, is a Buddhist temple in the city of Nara, Japan.
Hokke-ji was built by Empress Kōmyō in 745, originally as a nunnery temple on the grounds where her father Fujiwara no Fuhito's mansion stood. According to records kept by the temple, the ...
died.
[Meeks, Lori Rachelle. (2010). ]
Notes
References
* Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005)
''Japan encyclopedia.''Cambridge:
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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
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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
1290s in Japan
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