was a after ''
Wadō'' and before ''
Yōrō.'' This period spanned the years from September 715 through November 717. The reigning empress was .
Change of era
* 715 ; 715: The new era name was created to mark the beginning of the reign of Empress Genshō. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in ''Wadō'' 8 on the 3rd day of the 9th month of 715.
Events of the ''Reiki'' era
* 715 (''Reiki 1''):
Empress Gemmei abdicates; and her daughter receives the succession (''senso''). Shortly thereafter, Empress Genshō formally accedes to the throne (''
sokui'').
Emperor Mommu, Genshō's father, had died in 707, but his son (her brother) was deemed too young to receive the succession (''senso''); and instead, the mother of the male heir formally acceded to the throne (''sokui'') as Empress Gemmei until her son would grow mature enough to accept ''senso'' and ''sokui''. The future Emperor Shōmu's sister undertook a similar responsibility as Empress Genshō.
[Varley, H. Paul. (1980). ''Jinnō Shōtōki'', p. 44; a distinct act of ''senso'' is unrecognized prior to Emperor Tenji; and all sovereigns except Jitō, Yōzei, Go-Toba, and Fushimi have ''senso'' and ''sokui'' in the same year until the reign of Emperor Go-Murakami.]
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
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The pres ...
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OCLC 58053128*
Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). ''
Nihon Ōdai Ichiran''; 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:
Columbia University Press
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OCLC 6042764
External links
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, "The Japanese Calendar
-- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection
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