Chōji

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Chōji (長治) was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō, "year name") after Kōwa and before Kajō. This period spanned the years from February 1104 through April 1106.^[1] The reigning emperor was Emperor Horikawa-tennō (堀河天皇).^[2]

Change of era

• January 30, 1104 Chōji gannen (長治元年): The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Kōwa 6, on the 10th day of the 2nd month.^[3]

Events of the Chōji era

• 1104 (Chōji 1, 3rd month): The emperor visited Sonshō-ji^[4] in northeastern Kyoto.
• 1105 (Chōji 2, 6th month): A red snow was reported as having fallen in a number of Japanese provinces.^[4]

Notes

References

• Brown, Delmer M. and Ichirō Ishida, eds. (1979). Gukanshō: The Future and the Past. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-03460-0; OCLC 251325323
• 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 Ōdai 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

External links

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

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