Eikan (era)
Eikan ( Japanese 永 観 ) is a Japanese era ( Nengō ) from December 983 to May 985 according to the Gregorian calendar . The previous era name is Tengen , the following era is called Kanna . The era falls during the reign of the emperors ( Tennō ) En'yū and Kazan .
The first day of the Eikan era corresponds to May 29, 983, the last day was May 18, 985. The Eikan era lasted three years or 721 days.
Events
- 983 The monk Chōnen of the Tendai direction of Buddhism leaves for China with some students
- Minamoto no Tamenori wrote the Sambō Ekotoba ( 三宝 絵 詞 , German: "Three gems in words and pictures") for a daughter of the Reizei -Tennōs
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Reinhard Zöllner: Japanese calendar. A manual . iudicium, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-89129-783-1 , p. 29, 101 .
- ↑ 三宝 絵 詞 . In: ブ リ タ ニ カ 国際 大 百科 事 典 小 項目 事 典 at kotobank.jp. Retrieved October 3, 2019 (Japanese).
| Eikan | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| greg. | 983 | 984 | 985 |
| Previously: Tengen |
Nengō : Eikan |
Below: Kanna |