Karyaku (嘉暦), also romanized as Kareki, was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō, lit. "year name") after Shōchū and before Gentoku. This period spanned the years from April 1326 through August 1329.[1] The reigning Emperor was Go-Daigo-tennō (後醍醐天皇).[2]
Change of eraedit
1326Karyaku gannen (嘉暦元年): The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Shōchū 3.
Events of the Karyaku eraedit
March 8, 1327 (Karyaku 2, 14th day of the 2nd month): There is a total eclipse of the moon.[3]
Notesedit
^Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Karyaku" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 483, p. 483, at Google Books; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File Archived 2012-05-24 at archive.today.
^Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, pp. 278-281; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki. pp. 239-241.
^Xu, Zhentao et al. (2000). East-Asian Archaeoastronomy: Historical Records of Astronomical Observations of China, Japan and Korea, p. 97.
Referencesedit
Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128
Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Nihon Odai Ichiran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC 5850691
Xu, Zhentao and David W. Pankenier, Yaotiao Jiang. (2000). East-Asian Archaeoastronomy: Historical Records of Astronomical Observations of China, Japan and Korea. London: CRC Press. ISBN 978-90-5699-302-3
External linksedit
National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection