was a after ''

Ninju was a after ''Kashō'' and before ''Saikō.'' This period spanned the years from April 851 through November 854. The reigning emperor was . Change of era * February 5, 851 : The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. T ...

'' and before ''

Ten'an was a after ''Saikō'' and before '' Jōgan.'' This period spanned the years from February 857 through April 859. The reigning emperors were and . Change of Era * January 30, 857 : The new era name was created to mark an event or series of e ...

.'' This period spanned the years from November 854 through February 857. The reigning emperor was .

Change of era

* February 1, 854 : The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in ''Ninju'' 4, on the 29th day of the 11th month of 854.

Events of the ''Saikō'' era

* April 21, 854 (''Saikō 1, 13th day of the 6th month''): The ''

sadaijin The ''Kenkyusha's New Japanese-English Dictionary'', Kenkyusha Limited, was a government position in Japan in the late Nara and Heian periods. The position was consolidated in the Taihō Code of 702. The Asuka Kiyomihara Code of 689 marks the i ...

'' Minamoto no Tokiwa, also known as Minamoto no Tsune, died at age 43.Brown, p. 285; Titsingh
p. 113.
/ref> * 855 (''Saikō 2, 1st month''): The

Emishi The (also called Ebisu and Ezo), written with Chinese characters that literally mean "shrimp barbarians," constituted an ancient ethnic group of people who lived in parts of Honshū, especially in the Tōhoku region, referred to as in contemp ...

organized a rebellion; and in response, a force of 1,000 men and provisions were sent to the north.Titsingh
p. 114.
/ref> * 855 (''Saikō 2, 5th month''): The head of the great statute of Buddha in the Tōdai-ji fell off; and in consequence, the emperor ordered the then ''

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 Yoshisuke, the brother of ''sadaijin'' Yoshifusa, to be in charge of gathering the gifts of the pious from throughout the empire to make another head for the

Daibutsu or 'giant Buddha' is the Japanese term, often used informally, for large statues of Buddha. The oldest is that at Asuka-dera (609) and the best-known is that at Tōdai-ji in Nara (752). Tōdai-ji's daibutsu is a part of the UNESCO World Heritag ...

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 a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing. It is a member of the Association of American University Presses. After the reti ...

.
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:

Columbia University Press Columbia University Press is a university press based in New York City, and affiliated with Columbia University. It is currently directed by Jennifer Crewe (2014–present) and publishes titles in the humanities and sciences, including the fi ...

.
OCLC 6042764

External links

National Diet Library The is the national library of Japan and among the largest libraries in the world. It was established in 1948 for the purpose of assisting members of the in researching matters of public policy. The library is similar in purpose and scope t ...

, "The Japanese Calendar
-- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection
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