Genji (era)
Genji ( Japanese 元 治 ) is a Japanese era ( Nengō ) that was only valid for about one year, from 1864 to 1865 in the Gregorian calendar . The previous era name is Bunkyū , the subsequent era is Keiō . The era falls in the end times of the Edo period ( Bakumatsu ), during the reign of the emperor ( Tennō ) Kōmei .
The first day of the first month of the Genji Era ( 元 治 元年 正月 一日 ) corresponds to February 8, 1864. The new era was called to mark the beginning of a new 60-year cycle in the Chinese calendar . The name itself is derived from the I Ching .
Events
- July 8, 1864 (Genji 1/6/5), Ikedaya incident : Clash between Sonnō-Jōi followers from Chōshū and the Shinsengumi in the Ryokan Ikedaya in Kyoto .
- August 12, 1864 (Genji 1/7/11): The Rangaku scholar Sakuma Shōzan is murdered at the age of 53. On the instructions of the shogunate, he was on the way from Edo to Kyoto. He was a proponent of opening up the country and was murdered by a Sonnō-joi supporter.
- 5th / 6th September 1864 (Genji 1/8 / 5-6): Bombardment of Shimonoseki
- August 20, 1864 (Genji 1/7/19): Uprising at the Hamaguri Gate . In response, the imperial court proclaimed a new Nengo (Keio).
Remarks
- ^ Griffis, William E. (1915). The Mikado: Institution and Person, p. 84.
- ^ Armstrong, Robert Cornell. (1914). Light from the East Or Studies in Japanese Confucianism, p. 192.
- ^ National Diet Library: Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures .
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- Armstrong, Robert Cornell. (1914). Light from the East Or Studies in Japanese Confucianism. Toronto: University of Toronto Press . OCLC 220491442
- Griffis, William E. (1915). The Mikado: Institution and Person. Princeton: Princeton University Press . OCLC 413118
| Genji | 1 | 2 |
| greg. | 1864 | 1865 |
| Previously: Bunkyū |
Nengō : Genji |
Hereinafter: Keiō |