Shōwa (Kamakura period)

Shōwa (正和) was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō,, lit. "year number") after Ōchō and before Bunpō. This period spanned the years from March 1312 through February 1317.[1] The reigning emperor was Hanazono-tennō (花園天皇).[2]

Change of era

Events of the Shōwa era

Initially, former-Emperor Fushimi administered the court up through the time he took the tonsure as a Buddhist monk.[3]

Notes

  1. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Shōwa" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 888, p. 888, at Google Books; 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. 278-280; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki. pp. 239-243.
  3. Varley, p. 241.
  4. Titsingh, p. 279.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Titsingh, p. 280.

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Preceded by
Ōchō
Era or nengō
Shōwa

1311–1317
Succeeded by
Bunpō


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