Karoku

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Glossary Timeline

Karoku (嘉禄) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,, lit. "year name") after Gennin and before Antei. This period spanned the years from April 1225 to December 1227.^[1] The reigning emperor was Go-Horikawa-tennō (後堀河天皇).^[2]

Change of era

• 1225 Karoku gannen (嘉禄元年): The era name was changed to mark an event or a number of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in Gennin 2.

Events of the Karoku Era

• 1225 (Karoku 1, 11th month): At Kamakura, Kujō Yoritsune's coming of age ceremonies took place at age 8; but control of all bakufu affairs remained entirely in the hands of Hōjō Yasutoki, the regent (shikken).^[3]
• 1225 (Karoku 1, 12th month): Emperor Go-Horikawa went in formal procession to Iwashimizu Hachiman-gū and to the Kamo Shrines.^[3]
• 1226 (Karoku 2, 1st month): The Emperor raised Yoritsune to the first rank of the fifth class in the apex of artistocratic court hierarchy (the dōjō kuge).^[3]

Notes

References

• 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