Taika

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Taika ( Japanese 大化 'Great Turnaround' ) is a Japanese era ( Nengō ) from July 645 to February 650 according to the Gregorian calendar . Taika is the first official era name, the following second era is called Hakuchi . The era falls during the reign of the emperor ( Tennō ) Kōtoku .

The first day of the Taika era corresponds to July 17, 645; the last day was March 21, 650. The Taika era lasted six years or 1709 days.

Timeline: Overlap of Japanese Nengo and Tenno reigns
Mommu Jitō Temmu Kōbun Tenji Kōgyoku Kōtoku Keiun Taihō (Ära) Shuchō Hakuchi (Ära) Taika Gemmei Kōgyoku

The naming of the government currencies (Nengō) was not used consistently at the beginning and overlaps with the reigns of the Tennō .

Events

  • 645 Taika reform issued
  • 645 Palace of Toyosaki-no-miya in Nagara (near Osaka ) becomes the seat of government
  • 646 Establishment of an official system ( 七色 十三 階 冠 Nanashiki jūsan kaikan )
  • 649 Soga no Kurayamada no Ishikawa no Maro commits suicide in the Yamada-dera temple after the Nihonshoki

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Reinhard Zöllner: Japanese calendar. A manual . iudicium, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-89129-783-1 , p. 18, 100 .
Taika 1 2 3 4th 5 6th
greg. 645 646 647 648 649 650
Previous:
- 		Nengō :
Taika 		Hereafter :
Hakuchi