was a after ''

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'' and before '' Eichō''. This period spanned the years from December 1094 through December 1096. The reigning emperor was .

Change of Era

* January 19, 1094 : The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in ''Kanji'' 8, on the 15th day of the 12th month of 1094.

Events of the ''Kahō'' Era

* 1095 (''Kahō 2, 4th month''): Emperor Horikawa paid visits to the Iwashimizu Shrine and to the Kamo Shrines.Titsingh
p. 176.
/ref> * 1095 (''Kahō 2, 8th month''): The emperor was stricken with intermittent fevers; and he ordered prayers to be offered for his return to good health. After Horikawa recovered his health, he was generous and appreciative to the

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priests who had prayed for his recovery. * 1095 (''Kahō 2, 11th month''): The Buddhist priests of Mt. Hiei came down from their mountain to protest a dispute with Minamoto Yoshitsuna and other government officials which had led to military action and bloodshed. The priests carried a portable shrine as far as the central hall of

Enryaku-ji is a Tendai monastery located on Mount Hiei in Ōtsu, overlooking Kyoto. It was first founded in 788 during the early Heian period (794–1185) by Saichō (767–822), also known as Dengyō Daishi, who introduced the Tendai sect of Mahayana ...

, where a curse was laid on ''

daijō-daijin The was the head of the during and after the Nara period and briefly under the Meiji Constitution. It was equivalent to the Chinese , or Grand Preceptor. History Emperor Tenji's favorite son, Prince Ōtomo, was the first to have been acco ...

'' Fujiwara Moromichi. * November 26, 1096 (''Kahō 3, 9th day of the 11th month''): Former-

Emperor Shirakawa was the 72nd emperor of Japan,Imperial Household Agency (''Kunaichō'') 白河天皇 (72)/ref> according to the traditional order of succession. Shirakawa's reign lasted from 1073 to 1087. Genealogy Before his ascension to the Chrysanthemum T ...

entered the Buddhist priesthood at the age of 44.Brown, p. 316.

Notes

References

* Brown, Delmer M. and Ichirō Ishida, eds. (1979)
''Gukanshō: The Future and the Past''.
Berkeley: University of California Press.
OCLC 251325323
* Kitagawa, Hiroshi and Bruce T. Tsuchida, ed. (1975). ''The Tale of the Heike''. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press.
OCLC 164803926
* 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

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