Engi (era)

Engi ( Japanese 延 喜 ) is a Japanese era ( Nengō ) from August 901 to May 923 according to the Gregorian calendar . The previous era name is Shōtai , the following era is called Enchō . The era falls during the reign of the Emperor ( Tennō ) Daigo .

The first day of the Engi era corresponds to August 31, 901, the last day was May 28, 923. The Engi era lasted 23 years or 7941 days.

Events

• 905 Ki no Tsurayuki assigns the first imperial anthology of poems, the Kokin-Wakashū new
• 909 Statesman Fujiwara no Tokihira dies at the age of 38
• 913 Tennō Uda leads the Teiji-no-in poetry contest ( 亭子 院 歌 合 )
• 915 eruption of Towada volcano

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Reinhard Zöllner: Japanese calendar. A manual . iudicium, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-89129-783-1 , p. 26-27, 100 .

Engi	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23
greg.	901	902	903	904	905	906	907	908	909	910	911	912	913	914	915	916	917	918	919	920	921	922	923

Previous: Shōtai

Nengō : Engi

Hereinafter : Enchō