Taihō (大宝?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,?, lit. "year name") after a late 7th century interruption in the sequence of nengō after Shuchō and before Keiun. This period spanned the years from 701 through 704. The reigning emperor was Mommu-tennō (文武天皇?).[1]
Change of era
- 701 Taihō gannen (大宝元年?): The new era name Taihō (meaning "Great Treasure") was proclaimed to memorialize the creation of the "great treasure" of codified organization and laws. The new era commenced on the 21st day of the 3rd month of 701.[2]
Events of the Taihō era
- 701 (Taihō 1): Plans for sending a diplomatic mission to the Tang court was approved.[3]
- 702 (Taihō 2): The Taihō Code or Code of Taihō (大宝律令, Taihō-ritsuryō?) or Taihōryō reorganizing the central government and completing many of the reforms begun by the Taika Reforms in 646.[4]
- 701 (Taihō 2): A mission to the Tang court, led by Awata no Mahito (粟田真人?), embarked on their journey to China, traveling by ship.[3] This was called the "embassy of Taihō" because it was begun during this era.[5]
Notes
- ^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, pp. 60-63; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 270-271; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki. pp. 137-140.
- ^ Brown, p. 271.
- ^ a b Fogel, Joshua A. (2009). Articulating the Sinosphere: Sino-Japanese Relations in Space and Time, pp. 102-107; publisher's blurb;
- ^ Asakawa, Kan'ichi. (1903). The Early Institutional Life of Japan, p.13.
- ^ Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1962). Sovereign and Subject, p. 244.
References
- Asakawa, Kan'ichi. (1903). The Early Institutional Life of Japan. Tokyo: Shueisha [New York: Paragon Book Reprint Corp., 1963]. OCLC 254373222
- Brown, Delmer and Ichiro Ishida, eds. (1979). [ Jien, c.1220], 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. 10-ISBN 0-520-03460-0/13-ISBN 978-0-520-03460-0; OCLC 5145872
- Fogel, Joshua A. (2009). Articulating the Sinosphere: Sino-Japanese Relations in Space and Time. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 13-ISBN 9780674032590/10-ISBN 0674032594; OCLC 255142264
- Ponsonby-Fane, Richard Arthur Brabazon. (1962). Sovereign and Subject. Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society. OCLC 1014075
- 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. OCLC 311322353
- 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. 10-ISBN 0-231-04940-4/13-ISBN 978-0-231-04940-5; OCLC 6042764
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