Shuchō

Shuchō (朱鳥), alternatively read as Suchō or Akamitori, was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō,, lit. "year name") after a gap following Hakuchi (650-654) and before another gap lasting until Taihō (701-704). This Shuchō period briefly spanned a period of mere months, June through September 686.[1] The reigning sovereigns were Temmu-tennō (天武天皇) and Jitō-tennō (持統天皇).[2]

History

In 686, also known as Shuchō gannen (朱鳥元年), the new era name referred to the red bird of the south, which was one of the Chinese directional animals.[3] The nengō did not survive Emperor Temmu's death. The era ended with the accession of Temmu's successor, Empress Jitō.

Timeline

Timelines of early Japanese nengō and Imperial reign dates
Emperor Mommu Empress Jitō Emperor Temmu Emperor Kōbun Emperor Tenji Empress Saimei Emperor Kōtoku Keiun Taihō (era) Shuchō Hakuchi (era) Taika (era) Empress Gemmei Empress Kōgyoku

The system of Japanese era names was not the same as Imperial reign dates.

Events of the Shuchō era

Notes

  1. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Shuchō" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 889, p. 889, 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. 58-59; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 268-269.
  3. Bender, Ross. (2009). "The Suppression of the Tachibana Naramaro Conspiracy," Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 37/2:223–245; compare mirrored full-text; retrieved 2012-10-23.
  4. 1 2 3 Hioki (2007:195)
  5. 1 2 Hioki (2007:196)

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Preceded by
Era or nengō
Shuchō

686
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Kōbun period
672
Imperial reign dates
Temmu period

673–686
Succeeded by
Jitō period
686–697
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