Jōō (Edo period)

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This article is about the Japanese era name Jōō occurring during the Edo period. For other uses, see Jōō.

Jōō (承応, Jōō^?), alternatively read as Shōō, was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Keian and before Meireki. This period spanned the years from 1652 through 1655. The reigning emperors were Go-Komyo-tennō (後光明天皇 , Go-Komyo-tennō^?) and Go-Sai-tennō (後西天皇 , Go-Sai-tennō^?).^[1]

1 Change of era
2 Events of the Jōō era
3 References
- 3.1 External links

Change of era

Jōō gannen (承応元年, Jōō gannen^?), 1652: The era name was changed to Jōō (meaning "receiving answers"), which was to mark the death of the third shogun, Tokugawa Iemitsu. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in Keian 5, on the 18th day of the 9th month.

The name of this new era came from the Book of the Jin: "The Xia and the Shang dynasties follow their destinies, so the House of Zhou came when it was time." (夏商承運、周氏応期)

Events of the Jōō era

Jōō 2, on the 12th day of the 8th month (1653): A violent fire destroyed a large part of the Imperial palace and many temples which were nearby. Shortly thereafter, several girls, aged 12-14 years, were imprisoned for having started this fire and others in Heian-kyō.^[2]
Jōō 3, on the 6th day of the 7th month (1654): A famous priest, Ingen, arrived at Nagasaki from China. His intention was to reform the practice of Buddhism in Japan.^[2]
Jōō 3, on the 20th day of the 9th month (1654): Emperor Go- Kōmyō died of smallpox; and his funereal ceremonies were at Sennyuji (泉涌寺,, senyō-ji^?) on the 15th day of the 10th month.^[3]

References

^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 412-13.
^ ^a ^b Titsingh, p. 412.
^ Titsingh, p. 413; Porter, Robert. (2001). Japan: The Rise of a Modern Power, p. 65.

Porter, Robert P. (2001). Japan: The Rise of a Modern Power. Boston:Adamant Media. ISBN 1-4021-9690-3
Screech, Timon. (2006). Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822. London: RoutledgeCurzon. ISBN 0-700-71720-X
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. ... Click link for digitized, full-text copy of this book (in French)