Genryaku

Genryaku(元暦) was a Japanese era name(年号, nengō; lit. "year name") after Juei and before Bunji. This period spanned the years from April 1184 through August 1185. The reigning emperors were Antoku-tennō(安徳天皇) and Go-Toba-tennō(後鳥羽天皇).

Change of era

• 1184 Genryaku gannen(元暦元年): The new era name was created to mark an event or a number of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in Juei 3, on the 16th day of the 4th month of 1184.

Events of the Genryaku era

• 1185 (Genryaku 2, 24th day of the 3rd month): the Taira (also known as the Heike) and the Minamoto clashed in the Battle of Dan-no-ura; and the Heike were utterly defeated.
• 1185 (Genryaku 2, 9th day of the 7th month): Great earthquake caused turmoil in the capital and in the neighboring provinces.

Sources

• Brown, Delmer M. and Ichirō Ishida, eds. (1979). Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-03460-0;
• 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 9780231049405;

External links

• National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar"