Kyōhō

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Template:Nihongo, also pronounced Kyōho, was a Template:Nihongo after Shōtoku and before Genbun. This period spanned the years from July 1716 through April 1736.<ref>Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Kyōhō" Template:Google books; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File Template:Webarchive.</ref> The reigning emperors were Template:Nihongo and Template:Nihongo.<ref>Titsingh, Issac. (1834). Annales des empereurs to japon, pp. 416–417.</ref>

Change of era

  • 1716 Template:Nihongo: The era name of Kyōhō (meaning "Undergoing and Supporting") was created in response to the death of Tokugawa Ietsugu. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Shōtoku 6, on the 22nd day of the 6th month.

Events of the Kyōhō era

  • 1717 (Kyōhō 2): Kyōhō reforms are directed and overseen by Shōgun Yoshimune.<ref>Bowman, John Stewart. (2000). Columbia Chronologies of Asian History and Culture, p. 142.</ref>
  • 1718 (Kyōhō 3): The bakufu repaired the Imperial mausolea.<ref name="pf320">Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1956). Kyoto: the Old Capital, 794–1869, p. 320.</ref>
  • 1718 (Kyōhō 3, 8th month): The bakufu established a Template:Nihongo at the office of the machi-bugyō in Heian-kyō.<ref name="pf320"/>
  • 1720 (Kyōhō 5, 6th month): The 26th High Priest of Nichiren Shōshū, Nichikan Shōnin, who is considered a great reformer of the sect, inscribed the Gohonzon which the lay Buddhist organisation SGI uses to bestow upon its members, after the Nichiren Shōshū priesthood, under the leadership of 67th High Priest Nikken, refused to do so.
  • 1721 (Kyōhō 6): Edo population of 1.1 million is world's largest city.<ref>Foreign Press Center. (1997). Japan: Eyes on the Country, Views of the 47 Prefectures, p. 127.</ref>
  • 1730 (Kyōhō 15): The Tokugawa shogunate officially recognizes the Dojima Rice Market in Osaka; and bakufu supervisors (nengyoji) are appointed to monitor the market and to collect taxes.<ref>Adams, Thomas. (1953). Japanese Securities Markets: A Historical Survey, p. 11.</ref> The transactions relating to rice exchanges developed into securities exchanges, used primarily for transactions in public securities.<ref>Adams, p. 12.</ref> The development of improved agriculture production caused the price of rice to fall in mid-Kyohō.<ref>Hayami, Akira et al. (2004) The Economic History of Japan: 1600–1990, p. 67.</ref>
  • August 3, 1730 (Kyōhō 15, 20th day of the 6th month): A fire broke out in Muromachi and 3,790 houses were burnt. Over 30,000 looms in Nishi-jin were destroyed. The bakufu distributed rice.<ref name="pf320"/>
  • 1732 (Kyōhō 17): The Kyōhō famine was the consequence after swarms of locusts devastated crops in agricultural communities around the inland sea.<ref>Hall, John. (1988). The Cambridge History of Japan, p. 456.</ref>
  • 1733 (Kyōhō 18): Ginseng grown in Japan begins to be available in the Japanese food markets.<ref name="takeyoshi352">Takekoshi, Yosaburō. (1930). Economic Aspects of the History of the Civilization of Japan, p. 352.</ref>
  • 1735 (Kyōhō 20): Sweet potatoes were introduced into the Japanese diet.<ref name="takeyoshi352"/>

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