En'ō

En'ō(延応) was a Japanese era name(年号, nengō; lit. "year name") after Ryakunin and before Ninji. This period spanned the years from February 1239 to July 1240. The reigning emperor was Shijō-tennō(四条天皇).

Change of era

• 1239 En'ō gannen(延応元年): The era name was changed to mark an event or a number of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in Ryakunin 2.

Events of the En'ō Era

• 1239 (En'ō 1, 1st month): The Daijo daijin Kujō Yoshihira(九条 良平) retired from worldly concerns, taking the tonsure of a Buddhist priest.
• 1239 (En'ō 1, 2nd month): Former Emperor Go-Toba died at age 60.

Notes

• Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5;
• Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Nihon Odai Ichiran; ou, Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.
• Varley, H. Paul. (1980). A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-04940-5;

External links

• National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar"