Karyaku

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Karyaku (嘉暦), also romanized as Kareki, was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,, lit. "year name") after Shōchū and before Gentoku. This period spanned the years from April 1326 through August 1329.^[1] The reigning Emperor was Go-Daigo-tennō (後醍醐天皇).^[2]

Change of era

• 1326 Karyaku gannen (嘉暦元年): The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Shōchū 3.

Events of the Karyaku era

• March 8, 1327 (Karyaku 2, 14th day of the 2nd month): There is a total eclipse of the moon.^[3]

Notes

References

• Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128
• Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Nihon Odai Ichiran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC 5850691
• Varley, H. Paul. (1980). A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231049405; OCLC 6042764
• Xu, Zhentao and David W. Pankenier, Yaotiao Jiang. (2000). East-Asian Archaeoastronomy: Historical Records of Astronomical Observations of China, Japan and Korea. London: CRC Press. ISBN 978-90-5699-302-3

External links

• National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection