826 in Japan

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Events in the year 826 in Japan .

Events

• Kōbō-Daishi counsels the emperor to build a pagoda near To-ji in Kyoto. ^[1]
• In September of this year, Kazusa, Hitachi, and Kōzuke Provinces were designated shinnō ningoku (親王任国, lit. "the imperial prince's estates/countries"), and he assumed the role of governor of all three. ^[2]

Incumbents

• Monarch: Junna ^[3]

Births

• January 22 – Emperor Montoku (died 858)

References

1. Titsingh, Isaac (1834). Nihon Ōdai Ichiran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. p. 105. OCLC   5850691.
2. 国司 [Provincial officials] (in Japanese). Kotobank. Archived from the original on 13 February 2024. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
3. Brown, Delmer M.; Ishida, Ichirō (1979). The Future and the Past (a translation and study of the Gukanshō, an interpretive history of Japan written in 1219). Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 102. ISBN   978-0-520-03460-0. OCLC   251325323.