Ōei

Ōei (応永, Ōei^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Meitoku and before Shōchō. This period spanned the years from 1394 through 1428. Reigning emperors were Go-Komatsu-tennō (後小松天皇,, Go-Komatsu-tennō^?) and Shōkō-tennō (称光天皇, Shōkō-tennō^?).^[1]

[edit] Change of era

• Ōei gannen (応永元年, Ōei gannen^?); 1394: The new era name was created because of plague. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in Meitoku 5, the 5th day of the 7th month.

[edit] Events of the Ōei era

• Ōei 4, on the 16th day of the 4th month (1397): Construction begun on Kinkaku-ji.
• Ōei 6, on the 28th day of the 10th month (1399): Ōei Rebellion begins. Ōuchi Yoshiharu raises an army against Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu.
• Ōei 8, on the 13th day of the 5th month (1401): Yoshimitsu sends a diplomatic mission to China as a tentative first step in re-initiating trade between Japan and Ming China.
• Ōei 18, in the 10th month (October 5, 1412): Emperor Shōkō became emperor upon the abdication of his father, Emperor Go-Komatsu. His actual coronation date was two years later. Shōkō was only 12 years old when he began living in the daïri; but Go-Komatsu, as a Cloistered Emperor still retained direction of the court and the Shogun was charged with the general superintendence of affairs.^[2]
• Ōei 20 (1413): Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimochi fell ill, and so he sent an ambassador to the Ise Shrine to pray for the return of his health.^[3]
• Ōei 21, on the 19th day of the 12th month (1414): Enthronement of Emperor Shōkō.
• Ōei 26, on the 26th day of the 6th month (1419): Oei Invasion. Korea invaded Tsushima Province.
• Ōei 30 (1423): Shogun Yoshimochi retires in favor of his son, Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, who is 17 years old.^[4]
• Ōei 32, on the 27th day of the 2nd month (1425): Shogun Yoshikatsu died at the age of 19 years, having administered the empire for only three years.^[5]

[edit] References

• Titsingh, Isaac, ed. (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. ... Click link for digitized, full-text copy of this book (in French)

[edit] External links

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

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