Gennin

Gennin(元仁) was a Japanese era name(年号, nengō; lit. "year name") after Jōō and before Karoku. This period spanned the years from November 1224 to April 1225. The reigning emperor was Go-Horikawa-tennō(後堀河天皇).

Change of era

• 1224 Gennin gannen(元仁元年): The era name was changed to mark an event or a number of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in Jōō 3.

Events of the Gennin Era

• 1224 (Gennin 1): Kyogyoshinsho was believed to have been composed in 1224; and this is also considered the year in which Jōdo Shinshū was founded.

Notes

• Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN978-0-674-01753-5;
• 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. ISBN978-0-231-04940-5;

External links

• National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar"