Kannin

Kannin(寛仁) was a Japanese era name(年号, nengō; lit. "year name") after Chōwa and before Jian. This period spanned the years from April 1017 through February 1021. The reigning emperor was Go-Ichijō-tennō(後一条天皇).

Change of era

• 1017 Kannin 1(寛仁元年): The era name was changed to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in Chōwa 6, on the 23rd day of the 4th month of 1017.

Events of the Kannin era

• June 5, 1017 (Kannin 1, 9th day of the 5th month): The former-Emperor Sanjō died at the age of 42.
• January 22, 1018 (Kannin 2, 3rd day of the 1st month): The emperor celebrated his coming-of-age ceremony.

Notes

• 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"