Enkyō (Edo period)

Period of Japanese history (1744–1748)

Enkyō (延享) was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō, lit. "year name") after Kanpō and before Kan'en. This period spanned the years from February 1744 through July 1748.^[1] The reigning emperors were Sakuramachi-tennō (桜町天皇) and Momozono-tennō (桃園天皇).^[2]

Change of era

• 1744 Enkyō gannen (延享元年): The new era of Enkyō (meaning "Becoming Prolonged") was created to mark the start of a new 60-year cycle of the Chinese zodiac. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in Kampō 4, on the

Events of Enkyō era

• 1744 (Enkyō 1): A great comet was visible in the sky for many months; this comet is likely to have been what is today identified as C/1743 X1 (De Cheseaux).^[3]...Click link for online Harvard-Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System
• 1745 (Enkyō 2): Tokugawa Ieshige became shōgun of the Edo bakufu.^[4]
• 1745 (Enkyō 2): First establishment of a market fair in the capital was to be found at the temple of Hirano, in the Ōmi province.^[4]
• 1746 (Enkyō 3, 2nd month): A great fire sweeps through Edo.^[4]

Notes

1. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Enkyō", Japan Encyclopedia, p. 179.
2. Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 417-418.
3. Zhuang, T. (1988). Acta Astronomica Sinica, v29:2, p. 208.
4. Titsingh, p. 418.

References

• Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 48943301
• 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.
• Zhuang, T. (1988). Acta Astronomica Sinica, v29:2.

External links

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