Jinki ( 神亀?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,?, lit. "year name") after Yōrō and before Tenpyō. This period spanned the years from 724 through 729. The reigning emperor was Shōmu-tennō (聖武天皇?).[1]
Change of era
- 724 Jinki gannen (神亀元年?): The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Yōrō 8, on the 4th day of the 2nd month of 724.[2]
Events of the Jinki era
- 727 (Jinki 4): The emperor sent commissioners into all the provinces to look into examine the administrations of the governors and the conduct of all public functionaries.[3]
- 724 (Jinki 5): An ambassador from Korea was received in court.[3]
Notes
References
- Brown, Delmer M. and Ichirō Ishida, eds. (1979). [ Jien, c. 1220], Gukanshō (The Future and the Past, a translation and study of the Gukanshō, an interpretative history of Japan written in 1219). Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-03460-0
- Titsingh, Isaac, ed. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō, 1652], Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.
- Varley, H. Paul , ed. (1980). [ Kitabatake Chikafusa, 1359], Jinnō Shōtōki ("A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa" translated by H. Paul Varley). New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-04940-4
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