Kyōroku

Kyōroku (享禄) was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō,, lit. "year name") after Daiei and before Tenbun. This period spanned the years from August 1528 to July 1532.[1] The reigning emperor was Go-Nara-tennō (後奈良天皇).[2]

Change of era

This nengō takes its name from the I Ching: "He who sits on the Imperial Throne enjoys Heaven's Favor (居天位享天禄).

Events of the Kyōroku era

Statues were blackened in fire at Yakushi-ji in 1528.

Notes

  1. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Kyoroku" in Japan encyclopedia, p. 585; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File.
  2. Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 372-382.
  3. Giesen, Walter. (2012). Japan, p. 428.
  4. 1 2 Titsingh, p. 373.
  5. Varley, Paul H. (2000). Japanese Culture, p. 207; Jansen, Marius B. (2002). The Making of Modern Japan, p. 248.
  6. Davis, David L. (1974). "Ikki in Late Medieval Japan," in Medieval Japan: Essays in Institutional History (John W. Hall, ed.), p. 242.
  7. Hauser, William B. (1974). Economic Institutional Change in Tokugawa Japan, p. 8.

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Preceded by
Daiei
Era or nengō
Kyōroku

15281532
Succeeded by
Tenbun
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