- Angen
. [Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). "Annales des empereurs du Japon," pp. 195-200; Brown, Delmer "et al." (1979). "Gukanshō," pp. 330-333; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). "Jinnō Shōtōki." pp. 212-214.]
Change of era
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1175 : The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in "Jōan" 5, on the 28th day of the 7th month of 1175. [Brown, p. 332.]Events of the "Angen" era
* "Angen 1", on the 22nd day of the 2nd month (
1175 ): the "naidaijin " Minamoto no Masamichi died at age 58. [Titsingh, p. 197; Brown, pp. 331-332.]
* "Angen 1", in the 11th month (1175 ): Fujiwara no Moronaga was named "naidaijin". [Titsingh, p. 197; Brown, p. 332.]
* "Angen 2", in the 3rd month (1176 ): Emperor Takakura visited his father, former-Emperor Go-Shirakawa , on the occasion of his 50th birthday. [Titsingh, p. 197.]
* "Angen 2", on the 19th day of the 7th month (1176 ): The former-Emperor Rokujō died at the age of 13; [Titsingh, p. 197; Brown, p. 329.] and also in this same month, Takakura's mother, Empress Kenshun-mon In (formerly Taira Sigeko) died. [Titsingh, p. 197; Brown, p. 331.]
* "Angen 2", in the 7th month (1176 ): Fujiwara no Morotaka, daimyo of Kaga, was in a dispute with the priests ofMt. Hiei ; and his younger brother, Fujiwara no Morotsune, set fire to some of the temple buildings. The priests complained to the emperor, demanding that Morotaka be exiled and the Morotsune should be put in prison. However, because Fujiwara no Seiko, the father of these two brothers, was a great friend of Go-Shirakawa, the affair was allowed to lie dormant. [Titsingh, pp. 197-198.]References
* Brown, Delmer and Ichiro Ishida, eds. (1979). [
Jien , c. 1220] , "Gukanshō ; "The Future and the Past: a translation and study of the 'Gukanshō,' an interpretive history of Japan written in 1219" translated from the Japanese and edited by Delmer M. Brown & Ichirō Ishida." Berkeley:University of California Press . ISBN 0-520-03460-0
* Kitagawa, Hiroshi and Bruce T. Tsuchida, eds. (1975). "The Tale of the Heike ." Tokyo:University of Tokyo Press . ISBN 0-86008-128-1
* Titsingh, Isaac, ed. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō , 1652] , "Nipon o daï itsi ran ; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon, tr. par M. Isaac Titsingh avec l'aide de plusieurs interprètes attachés au comptoir hollandais de Nangasaki; ouvrage re., complété et cor. sur l'original japonais-chinois, accompagné de notes et précédé d'un Aperçu d'histoire mythologique du Japon, par M. J. Klaproth." Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. [http://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&dq=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran ... Click link for digitized, full-text copy of this book (in French)]
* Varley, H. Paul , ed. (1980). [Kitabatake Chitafusa, 1359] , "Jinnō Shōtōki ("A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa" translated by H. Paul Varley)." New York:Columbia University Press . ISBN 0-231-04940-4External links
* National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" [http://www.ndl.go.jp/koyomi/e/ -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection]
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