Shuchō

Shuchō (Japanese: 朱鳥), alternatively read as Suchō or Akamitori, was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō, lit. year name) after a gap following the Hakuchi era (650-654) and before another gap lasting until the Taihō era (701-704). This Shuchō period briefly spanned a period of months from 686 through 687. The reigning sovereigns were Temmu-tennō (天武天皇) and Jitō-tennō (持統天皇).

Change of Era

• Shuchō gannen (朱鳥元年; 686): The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events.

Events of the Shuchō Era

• Shuchō 1 (686):
• January 10 - Earthquake ^[1]
• January 14 - Naniwa Palace burns.^[1]
• June 10 - Sickness of Emperor Temmu is foretold. Blamed on curse of Kusanagi sword and hence returned to Atsutano Shrine in Owari Province.^[2]
• July 20 - Era name changes to Shuchō.^[2]
• Shuchō 1 (686) - Emperor Temmu dies and is succeeded by his niece and wife, who becomes Empress Jitō.
• Shuchō 1 (686) - Emperor Temmu's son, Prince Ōtsu, tries in vain to seize the throne, and is executed.

Empress Jitō distributed rice to the aged throughout the years of her reign.^[3]

References

Notes

• Hioki, Eigō (2007). Dai Ikkan: -1000 (Volume 1), Shin Kokushi Dainenhyō. Kokusho Kankōkai. ISBN 978-4-336-04826-4. 

Further reading

• Brown, Delmer and Ichiro Ishida, eds. (1979). Gukanshō; "The Future and the Past: a translation and study of the 'Gukanshō,' an interpretive history of Japan written in 1219" translated from the Japanese and edited by Delmer M. Brown & Ichirō Ishida. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-03460-0
• Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō (1652)]. Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon, tr. par M. Isaac Titsingh avec l'aide de plusieurs interprètes attachés au comptoir hollandais de Nangasaki; ouvrage re., complété et cor. sur l'original japonais-chinois, accompagné de notes et précédé d'un Aperçu d'histoire mythologique du Japon, par M. J. Klaproth. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.--Two digitized examples of this rare book have now been made available online: (1) from the library of the University of Michigan, digitized January 30, 2007; and (2) from the library of Stanford University, digitized June 23, 2006. Click here to read the original text in French.
• Varley, H. Paul , ed. (1980). [Kitabatake Chitafusa, 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

External links

• National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection

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