Jinki (era)

Jinki (神亀) was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō,, lit. "year name") after Yōrō and before Tenpyō. This period spanned the years from February 724 through August 729.^[1] The reigning emperor was Shōmu-tennō (聖武天皇).^[2]

Change of era

• 724 Jinki gannen (神亀元年): The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Yōrō 8, on the 4th day of the 2nd month of 724.^[3] The new era name meant "Sacred tortoise".^[4]

Events of the Jinki era

• 727 (Jinki 4): The emperor sent commissioners into all the provinces to look into examine the administrations of the governors and the conduct of all public functionaries.^[5]
• 728 (Jinki 5): An ambassador from Korea was received in court.^[5]

Notes

1. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Jinki" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 424, p. 424, at Google Books.
2. Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, p. 67-68; Brown, Delmer M. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 272-273; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki, pp. 141-143.
3. Brown, p. 273.
4. Bialock, David T. (2007). Eccentric Spaces, Hidden Histories: Narrative, Ritual, and Authority from The Chronicles of Japan to The Tale of the Heike, p. 63.
5. Titsingh, p. 68.

References

• Brown, Delmer M. and Ichirō Ishida, eds. (1979). Gukanshō: The Future and the Past. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-03460-0; OCLC 251325323
• 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
• Varley, H. Paul. (1980). A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231049405; OCLC 6042764

External links

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