Manji (era)
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Template:Nihongo was a Template:Nihongo after Meireki and before Kanbun. This period spanned the years from July 1658 through April 1661.<ref>Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Manji" in Japan encyclopedia, p. 607; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File Template:Webarchive.</ref> The reigning emperor was Template:Nihongo.<ref name="t413">Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, p. 413.</ref>
Change of eraEdit
- 1658 Template:Nihongo: The era name was changed to mark a disastrous, great fire in Edo. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in Meireki 4, on the 23rd day of the 7th month.
The source of this era name comes from the Records of the Grand Historian: "When the common people know their place, then all under heaven is ruled" (衆民乃定、万国為治)
Events of the Manji eraEdit
- 1658 (Manji 1): In the aftermath of the Great Mereiki Fire, the shogunate organized four all-samurai, all-Edo firefighting squads.<ref>McClain, James et al. (1994). Edo and Paris: Urban Life and the State in the Early Modern Era, p. xxii.</ref>
- 1658 (Manji 1): Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu is born. Yoshiyasu will become Shōgun Tsunayoshi's favorite courtier and chief counselor.<ref>Bodart-Bailey, Beatrice. (2006). The Dog Shogun: The Personality and Policies of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, p. 110.</ref>
- 1659 (Manji 2): In Edo, construction begins on the Ryōgoku Bridge (ryogokubashi).<ref name="t413"/>
- 1660 (Manji 3): Former rōjū Sakai Tadakatsu entered the Buddhist priesthood.
GalleryEdit
- Sunset across the Ryogoku bridge from the bank of the Sumida river at Onmagayashi.jpg
Katsushika Hokusai published this view of the Ryōgoku Bridge as an ukiyo-e print.
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ReferencesEdit
- Bodart-Bailey, Beatrice. (2006). The Dog Shogun: The Personality and Policies of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. Template:ISBN; Template:ISBN; OCLC 470123491
- McClain, James L., John M. Merriman and Kaoru Ugawa. (1994). Edo and Paris: Urban Life and the State in the Early Modern Era. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Template:ISBN
- Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Template:ISBN; OCLC 48943301
- Screech, Timon. (2006). Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779–1822. London: RoutledgeCurzon. Template:ISBN; OCLC 65177072
- Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Nihon Ōdai Ichiran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC 5850691
External linksEdit
- National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection