Yōrō (養老?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,?, lit. "year name") after Reiki and before Jinki. This period spanned the years from 717 through 724. The reigning empress was Genshō-tennō (元正天皇?).[1]
Change of era
- 717 Yōrō gannen (養老元年?): The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Reiki 3, on the 17th day of the 11th month of 717.[2]
Events of the Yōrō era
- 717 (Yōrō 1, 3rd month): The sadaijin Iso kami Marō died at age 78.[3]
- 717 (Yōrō 1, 9th month): Empress Genshō traveled through Ōmi province where she was met by the lords of the San'indō, the San'yōdō and the Nankaidō; and she was entertained with singing and dancing. From there, she traveled to Mino province where the lords of the Tōkaidō, Tōsandō and Hokurikudō who rendered similar honors and entertainments.[4]
- 718 (Yōrō 2): Revisions and commentaries on the Taihō Code are issued; and these changes are collectively known as the Yōrō Code (養老律令, Yōrō-ritsuryō?).[5]
- 721 (Yōrō 5, 5th month): The newly completed Nihonshoki in 30 volumes was offered to the Empress.[6]
- 721 (Yōrō 5, 5th month): The udaijin Fujiwara Fuhito died at age 62.[7]
- 721 (Yōrō 5, 5th month): The former-Empress Gemmei died at age 61.[7]
Notes
- ^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, pp. 65-67; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 271-272; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki. pp. 140-141.
- ^ Brown, p. 272.
- ^ Titsingh, p. 65.
- ^ Titsingh, pp. 65-66.
- ^ Asakawa, Kan'ichi. (1903). The Early Institutional Life of Japan: A Study in the Reform of 645, p. 13.
- ^ Titsingh, p. 66.
- ^ a b Titsingh, p. 67.
References
- Asakawa, Kan'ichi. (1903). The Early Institutional Life of Japan. Tokyo: Shueisha [New York: Paragon Book Reprint Corp., 1963].
- 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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