, also romanized as Enkei, was a after '' Tokuji'' and before ''

Ōchō was a after ''Enkyō (Kamakura period), Enkyō'' and before ''Shōwa (first), Shōwa.'' This period spanned 11 months from April 1311 through February 1312. The reigning emperor was . Change of era * 1311 : The new era name was created to mar ...

.'' This period spanned the years from October 1308 through April 1311. The reigning emperor was .

Change of era

* 1308, also called : The new era name was created to mark the accession of Emperor Hanazono. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in ''Tokuji'' 3. The era name is derived from the

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(5th century AD) and combines the characters ("extend, lengthen") and ("jubilation"). It should not be confused with the later Enkyō era of 1744–48, which used a different second character (, "enjoy").

Events of the ''Enkyō'' era

Initially, former-

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administered the court up through the time he took the tonsure as a Buddhist monk, which happened after this ''nengō'' ended.Titsingh, . * 1308 (''Enkyō 1''): At the death of Emperor Go-Nijō, Hanazono accedes to the

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at age 12 years; and Takaharu''-shinnō'', the second son of former-

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is elevated as the

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under the direction of the

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.Titsingh, ; Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1959) ''The Imperial House of Japan,'' p. 204. * 1308 (''Enkyō 1, 10th month''): Kujō Moronori resigns his position as '' sesshō''; and he is replaced in that role by Takatsukasa Fuyuhira.Titsingh, . * 1309 (''Enkyō 2, 2nd month''): Konoe Iehira is elevated to the position of ''

sadaijin The ''Kenkyusha's New Japanese-English Dictionary'', Kenkyusha Limited, was a government position in Japan during the Asuka to Meiji era. The Asuka Kiyomihara Code of 689 marks the initial appearance of the ''Sadaijin'' in the context of a cent ...

.'' * 1310 (''Enkyō 3, 11th month''): The

Rokuhara Tandai was the post of the chiefs of the Kamakura shogunate in imperial capital Kyoto whose agency, the , kept responsibility for security in Kinai and judicial affairs on western Japan, and negotiated with the Imperial Court in Kyoto, imperial court. ...

in Kyoto, Hōjō Sadafusa, died and

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was named to take his place as Kyoto representative of the military government in Kamakura.

Notes

References

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

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OCLC 58053128
* Ponsonby-Fane, Richard Arthur Brabazon. (1959)
''The Imperial House of Japan.''
Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society
OCLC 194887
* Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). ''

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''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:

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OCLC 6042764

External links

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