was a after ''

Kennin was a after ''Shōji'' and before '' Genkyū.'' This period spanned the years from February 1201 through February 1204. The reigning emperor was . Change of era * 1201 ; 1201: The new era name was created to mark an event of shin'yū (辛酉) ...

'' and before '' Ken'ei''. This period spanned the years from February 1204 through April 1206. The reigning emperor was .

Change of era

* 1204 : 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 ''Kennin'' 4, on the 20th day of the 2nd month of 1204.Brown, p. 340.

Events of the ''Genkyū'' era

* 1204 (''Genkyū 1, 10th month''):

Minamoto no Sanetomo was the third ''shōgun'' of the Kamakura shogunate. He was the second son of the Kamakura shogunate founder, Minamoto no Yoritomo. His mother was Hōjō Masako and his older brother was the second Kamakura shogun Minamoto no Yoriie. His child ...

ordered Hōjō Masanori, Hōjō Tomomichi and

Hatakeyama Shigeyasu was a Kamakura-period warrior who fell victim to political intrigue in 1205. Grave and monument According to tradition, his grave can be found under a ''tabu no ki'' tree near the Yuigahama end of Wakamiya Ōji Avenue in Kamakura, Kanagawa Pr ...

to travel to

Heian-kyō Heian-kyō was one of several former names for the city now known as Kyoto. It was the official capital of Japan for over one thousand years, from 794 to 1868 with an interruption in 1180. Emperor Kanmu established it as the capital in 794, mo ...

. These three were charged with escorting the daughter of ''

dainagon was a counselor of the first rank in the Imperial court of Japan. The role dates from the 7th century. This advisory position remained a part of the Imperial court from the 8th century until the Meiji period in the 19th century.Nussbaum, "Dainag ...

'' Fujiwara-no Noboukiyo to

Kamakura , officially , is a city of Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan. It is located in the Kanto region on the island of Honshu. The city has an estimated population of 172,929 (1 September 2020) and a population density of 4,359 people per km2 over the tota ...

where she would marry Sanetomo.Titsingh, p. 227. * 1204 (''Genkyū 1, 12th month''): Two of Sanetomo's emissaries returned to Kanto with his bride-to-be; but Shigeyasu remained in Heian-kyo where he died. * 1205 (''Genkyū 2, 3rd month''): Kyoto and the provinces of the

Kinai is a Japanese term denoting an ancient division of the country. ''Kinai'' is a name for the ancient provinces around the capital Nara and Heian-kyō. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''Kinai''" in . The five provinces were called ''go-kin ...

were devastated by a terrible storm; and at the time, the disaster was deemed to have been caused by the Buddhist priest

Eisai was a Japanese Buddhist priest, credited with founding the Rinzai school, the Japanese line of the Linji school of Zen Buddhism. In 1191, he introduced this Zen approach to Japan, following his trip to China from 1187 to 1191, during which he w ...

after he brought the

Zen Zen (; from Chinese: ''Chán''; in Korean: ''Sŏn'', and Vietnamese: ''Thiền'') is a Mahayana Buddhist tradition that developed in China during the Tang dynasty by blending Indian Mahayana Buddhism, particularly Yogacara and Madhyamaka phil ...

school of Buddhism to the capital. Eisai was chased out of Kyoto, but in time, he was permitted to return.

References

;Sources * Brown, Delmer and Ichiro Ishida. (1979). ''The Future and the Past: a translation and study of the 'Gukanshō', an interpretative history of Japan written in 1219''. Berkeley:

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.
OCLC 5145872
* Kitagawa, Hiroshi and Bruce T. Tsuchida, eds. (1975). ''

The Tale of the Heike is an epic account compiled prior to 1330 of the struggle between the Taira clan and Minamoto clan for control of Japan at the end of the 12th century in the Genpei War (1180–1185). It has been translated into English at least five times. ...

''. Tokyo:

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. ; ; ;
OCLC 193064639
* Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005)
''Japan encyclopedia''.
Cambridge:

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OCLC 58053128
* 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
* 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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