, also romanized as Kampyō was a after '' Ninna'' and before '' Shōtai.'' This period spanned the years from April 889 through April 898. The reigning emperors were and .

Change of era

* February 4, 889 : The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in ''Ninna'' 5, on the 27th day of the 4th month of 889.

Events of the ''Kanpyō'' era

* 889 (''Kanpyō 1, 10th month''): The former-

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. Yōzei would enter the palace and address courtiers he would meet with the greatest

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. * August 4, 897 (''Kanpyō 9, 3rd day of the 7th month''): In the 10th year of Uda''-tennō''s reign (宇多天皇10年), Emperor Uda abdicated; and his eldest son received the succession (''senso''). * August 6, 897 (''Kanpyō 9, 5th day of the 7th month''): Emperor Daigo formally acceded to the throne (''sokui'').Brown, p. 291; Varley, p. 44

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:

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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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