Hōreki (宝暦, Hōreki?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,?, lit. "year name") after Kan'en and before Meiwa. The period spanned the years from 1751 through 1764. The reigning emperor and emperess were Momozono-tennō (桃園天皇, Momozono-tennō?) and Go-Sakuramachi-tennō (後桜町天皇, Go-Sakuramachi-tennō?).
Change of era
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- The previous era could be said to have ended and the new era is understood to have commenced in Kan'en 4, on the 27th day of the 10th month; however, this nengō was promulgated retroactively. The Keikō Kimon records that the calendar was amended by Imperial command, and the era was re-named Hōreki on December 2, 1754, which then would have become 19th day of the 10th month of the 4th year of Hōreki.[1]
Events of the Hōreki era
- Hōreki 8 (1758): The Hōreki Incident
- Hōreki 10 (1760): Shogun Ieshige resigns and his son, Ieharu, becomes the 10th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate.[2]
- Hōreki 13 (1763): A merchant association handling Korean ginseng is founded in the Kanda district of Edo.[2]
Notes
- ^ Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1959). Kyoto: The Old Capital of Japan, 794-1869, p. 321.
- ^ a b Hall, John. (1988). The Cambridge History of Japan, p. xxiii.
References
- Hall, John Whitney. (1988). The Cambridge History of Japan, v4: "Early Modern Japan." Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-5212-2357-1
- Ponsonby-Fane, Richard A.B. (1959). Kyoto: The Old Capital of Japan, 794-1869. Kyoto: Ponsonby-Fane Memorial.
- Screech, Timon. (2006). Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822. London: RoutledgeCurzon. ISBN 0-700-71720-X
- Isaac Titsingh|Titsingh]], Isaac. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō, 1652], Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. ... Click link for digitized, full-text copy of this book (in French)
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