Jōji
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Template:Nihongo was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō, lit. year name) of the Northern Court during the Era of Northern and Southern Courts after Kōan and before Ōan. This period spanned the years from September 1362 through February 1368.<ref>Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Japan Encyclopedia, p. 430; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority FileTemplate:Dead link.</ref> The emperor in Kyoto was Template:Nihongo.<ref>Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 302-308; Nussbaum, p. 175.</ref> Go-Kōgon's Southern Court rival in Yoshino during this time-frame was Template:Nihongo.
Nanboku-chō overview

During the Meiji period, an Imperial decree dated March 3, 1911 established that the legitimate reigning monarchs of this period were the direct descendants of Emperor Go-Daigo through Emperor Go-Murakami, whose Template:Nihongo had been established in exile in Yoshino, near Nara.<ref name="concise">Thomas, Julia Adeney. (2001). Reconfiguring modernity: concepts of nature in Japanese political ideology, p. 199 n57, citing Mehl, Margaret. (1997). History and the State in Nineteenth-Century Japan. p. 140-147.</ref>
Until the end of the Edo period, the militarily superior pretender-Emperors supported by the Ashikaga shogunate had been mistakenly incorporated in Imperial chronologies despite the undisputed fact that the Imperial Regalia were not in their possession.<ref name="concise"/>
This illegitimate Template:Nihongo had been established in Kyoto by Ashikaga Takauji.<ref name="concise"/>
Change of era
- 1362, also called Template:Nihongo: The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Kōan 2.
In this time frame, Shōhei (1346–1370) was a Southern Court equivalent nengō,
Events of the Jōji era
- 1362 (Jōji 1): The era begins with Ashikaga Yoshiakira in control of Kyoto.<ref name="a329"/>
- 1365 (Jōji 4): Emperor Go-Daigo's son, Prince Kaneyoshi (also known as Kanenaga) gains control of Kyūshū.<ref name="a329">Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982) Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron, p.329.</ref>
- 1367 (Jōji 6): Kantō Kubō Ashikaga Motouji dies;<ref name="a329"/> Yoshiakira falls ill and cedes his position to his son.<ref>Titsingh, p. 307.</ref>
- 1368 (Jōji 7): Yoshiakira's son, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, becomes the third shōgun of what comest to be known as the Muromachi period.<ref>Titsingh, p. 308.</ref>
Notes
References
- Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982) Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press. Template:ISBN
- Mehl, Margaret. (1997). History and the State in Nineteenth-Century Japan. New York: St Martin's Press. Template:ISBN; OCLC 419870136
- Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Template:ISBN; OCLC 48943301
- Thomas, Julia Adeney. (2001). Reconfiguring Modernity: Concepts of Nature in Japanese Political Ideology. Berkeley: University of California Press. Template:ISBN; Template:OCLC
- 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
External links
- National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection