Enkyō (Edo period)

For the earlier Japanese historical era of the same name , see Enkyō (Kamakura period) .

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

[edit] Change of era

Enkyō gannen (延享元年, Enkyō gannen^?); 1744: 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

Enkyō 1 (1744): Great comet was visible in sky for many months; and this comet is likely to have been what is today identified as C/1743 C1 (De-Cheseaux). ^[2]...Click link for online Harvard-Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System]
Enkyō 2 (1745): Tokugawa Ieshige became shogun of the Edo bakufu.^[1]
Enkyō 2 (1745): First establishment of a market fair in the capital was to be found at the temple of Hirano, in the Ōmi province.^[1]
Enkyō 3, in the 2nd month (1745): A great fire sweeps through Edo.^[1]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 417-418.
^ Zhuang, T. (1988). Acta Astronomica Sinica, v29:2, p. 208.

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