Kyōroku

Kyōroku(享禄) was a Japanese era name(年号, nengō; "year name") after Daiei and before Tenbun. This era spanned from August 1528 to July 1532. The reigning emperor was Go-Nara-tennō(後奈良天皇).

Change of era

• 1528 Kyōroku gannen(享禄元年): The era name was changed to mark the enthronement of Emperor Go-Nara. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in Daiei 8, the 20th day of the 8th month.

This nengō takes its name from the I Ching: "He who sits on the Imperial Throne enjoys Heaven's Favor (居天位享天禄).

Events of the Kyōroku era

• 1528 (Kyōroku 1): Fire damaged Yakushi-ji in Nara.
• 1528 (Kyōroku 1): Former kampaku Konoe Tanye became sadaijin. The former naidaijin, Minamoto-no Mitsikoto, becomes the udaijin. Former dainagon Kiusho Tanemitsi becomes naidaijin.
• 1529 (Kyōroku 2): Neo-Confucian scholar Wang Yangming died.
• 1530 (Kyōroku 3, 7th month): The former-kampaku Kiyusho Hisatsune died at the age of 63.
• 1531 (Kyōroku 4): The Kamakura shogunate office of shugo (governor) is abolished.
• 1532 (Kyōroku 5): Followers of the Ikko sect were driven out of Kyoto; and they settled in Osaka.

Notes

• Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Roth, Käthe. (2005). Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN978-0-674-01753-5;
• Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Nihon Ōdai Ichiran; ou, Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.

External links

• National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar"