was a after ''

Ōtoku was a after '' Eihō'' and before ''Kanji''. This period spanned the years from February 1084 through April 1087. The reigning emperor was . Change of Era * February 9, 1084 : The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. ...

'' and before ''

Kahō was a after ''Kanji'' 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 even ...

''. This period spanned the years from April 1087 through December 1094. The reigning emperor was

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(堀河天皇).

Change of era

* February 6, 1087 : The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in ''Ōtoku'' 4, on the 7th day of the 4th month of 1087.

Events of the ''Kanji'' era

* 1087 (''Kanji 1, 5th month''): '' Daijō-tennō'' Shirakawa retired himself to

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.Titsingh
p. 172.
/ref> * 1088 (''Kanji 2, 1st month''): The emperor paid a visit to his father's home.Titsingh
p. 173.
/ref> * 1088 (''Kanji 2, 10th month''): Shirakawa visited the temples at Mt. Hiei. * January 28, 1088 (''Kanji 2, 14th day of the 12th month''): The ''sesshō'' Fujiwara Morozane was given additional honors with the further title of ''

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''. In this context, it matters a great deal that the mother of Emperor Horikowa, formerly the daughter of ''udaijin'' Minamoto no Akifusa, was also formerly the adopted child of Morozane. * 1089 (''Kanji 3, 5th month''): Shirakawa made a second visit to Mt. Hiei; and this time, he stayed seven days. * 1090 (''Kanji 4, 12th month''): Fujiwara Morozane was relieved of his responsibilities as ''sesshō'' and he was simultaneously named ''kampaku.'' * March 26, 1094 (''Kanji 8, 8th day of the 3rd month''): Morozane resigned from his position as ''kampaku.''Brown, p. 318.

Notes

References

* Brown, Delmer M. and Ichirō Ishida, eds. (1979)
''Gukanshō: The Future and the Past''.
Berkeley: University of California Press.
OCLC 251325323
* 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 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

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, "The Japanese Calendar
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