Kyōhō

964–968	Kōhō
968–970	Anna
970–973	Tenroku
973–976	Ten'en
976–978	Jōgen
978–983	Tengen
983–985	Eikan
985–987	Kanna
987–988	Eien
988–990	Eiso
990–995	Shōryaku
995–999	Chōtoku
999–1004	Chōhō
1004–1012	Kankō
1012–1017	Chōwa
1017–1021	Kannin
1021–1024	Jian
1024–1028	Manju
1028–1037	Chōgen
1037–1040	Chōryaku

806–810	Daidō
810–824	Kōnin
824–834	Tenchō
834–848	Jōwa
848–851	Kashō
851–854	Ninju
854–857	Saikō
857–859	Ten'an
859–877	Jōgan
877–885	Gangyō
885–889	Ninna
889–898	Kanpyō
898–901	Shōtai
901–923	Engi
923–931	Enchō
931–938	Jōhei
938–947	Tengyō
947–957	Tenryaku
957–961	Tentoku
961–964	Ōwa

645–650	Taika
650–654	Hakuchi
686–686	Shuchō
701–704	Taihō
704–708	Keiun
708–715	Wadō
Nara
715–717	Reiki
717–724	Yōrō
724–729	Jinki
729–749	Tenpyō
749	Tenpyō-kanpō
749–757	Tenpyō-shōhō
757–765	Tenpyō-hōji
765–767	Tenpyō-jingo
767–770	Jingo-keiun
770–781	Hōki
781–782	Ten'ō
782–806	Enryaku

Last updated November 22, 2024 • 3 min readFrom Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Kyōhō (享保), also pronounced Kyōho, was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō, "year name") after Shōtoku and before Genbun. This period spanned the years from July 1716 through April 1736.^[1] The reigning emperors were Nakamikado -tennō (中御門天皇) and Sakuramachi -tennō (桜町天皇).^[2]

Change of era

1716Kyōhō gannen (享保元年): The era name of Kyōhō (meaning "Undergoing and Supporting") was created in response to the death of Tokugawa Ietsugu. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Shōtoku 6, on the 22nd day of the 6th month.

Events of the Kyōhō era

1717 (Kyōhō 2): Kyōhō reforms are directed and overseen by Shōgun Yoshimune.^[3]
1718 (Kyōhō 3): The bakufu repaired the Imperial mausolea.^[4]
1718 (Kyōhō 3, 8th month): The bakufu established a petition-box (目安箱, meyasubako) at the office of the machi-bugyō in Heian-kyō.^[4]
1720 (Kyōhō 5, 6th month): The 26th High Priest of Nichiren Shōshū, Nichikan Shōnin, who is considered a great reformer of the sect, inscribed the Gohonzon which the lay Buddhist organisation SGI uses to bestow upon its members, after the Nichiren Shōshū priesthood, under the leadership of 67th High Priest Nikken, refused to do so.
1721 (Kyōhō 6): Edo population of 1.1 million is world's largest city.^[5]
1730 (Kyōhō 15): The Tokugawa shogunate officially recognizes the Dojima Rice Market in Osaka; and bakufu supervisors (nengyoji) are appointed to monitor the market and to collect taxes.^[6] The transactions relating to rice exchanges developed into securities exchanges, used primarily for transactions in public securities.^[7] The development of improved agriculture production caused the price of rice to fall in mid-Kyohō.^[8]
August 3, 1730 (Kyōhō 15, 20th day of the 6th month): A fire broke out in Muromachi and 3,790 houses were burnt. Over 30,000 looms in Nishi-jin were destroyed. The bakufu distributed rice.^[4]
1732 (Kyōhō 17): The Kyōhō famine was the consequence after swarms of locusts devastated crops in agricultural communities around the inland sea.^[9]
1733 (Kyōhō 18): Ginseng grown in Japan begins to be available in the Japanese food markets.^[10]
1735 (Kyōhō 20): Sweet potatoes were introduced into the Japanese diet.^[10]

Notes

↑ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Kyōhō" Japan Encyclopedia, p. 584 , p. 584, at Google Books; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File Archived 2012-05-24 at archive.today .
↑ Titsingh, Issac. (1834). Annales des empereurs to japon, pp. 416–417.
↑ Bowman, John Stewart. (2000). Columbia Chronologies of Asian History and Culture, p. 142.
1 2 3 Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1956). Kyoto: the Old Capital, 794–1869, p. 320.
↑ Foreign Press Center. (1997). Japan: Eyes on the Country, Views of the 47 Prefectures, p. 127.
↑ Adams, Thomas. (1953). Japanese Securities Markets: A Historical Survey, p. 11.
↑ Adams, p. 12.
↑ Hayami, Akira et al. (2004) The Economic History of Japan: 1600–1990, p. 67.
↑ Hall, John. (1988). The Cambridge History of Japan, p. 456.
1 2 Takekoshi, Yosaburō. (1930). Economic Aspects of the History of the Civilization of Japan, p. 352.

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References

Adams, Thomas Francis Morton. (1953). Japanese Securities Markets: A Historical Survey. Tokyo: Seihei Okuyama. OCLC 4376900
Foreign Press Center. (1997). Japan: Eyes on the Country, Views of the 47 Prefectures. Tokyo: Foreign Press Center/Japan.
Hall, John Whitney. (1988). Early Modern Japan (The Cambridge History of Japan, Vol. 4). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521223553; OCLC 489633115
Hayami, Akira, Osamu Saitō, Ronald P Toby. (2004) The Economic History of Japan: 1600–1990, Vol. 1, Emergence of Economic Society in Japan, 1600–1859. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198289050; OCLC 314513300
Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 48943301
Ponsonby-Fane, Richard A.B. (1956). Kyoto: the Old Capital, 794–1869. Kyoto: Ponsonby-Fane Memorial. OCLC 36644
Screech, Timon. (2006). Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779–1822. London: RoutledgeCurzon. ISBN 978-0-203-09985-8; OCLC 65177072
Takekoshi, Yosaburō. (1930). Economic Aspects of the History of the Civilization of Japan. London: Allen & Unwen, republished by Routledge ISBN 0415323789/ ISBN 9780415323789
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 links

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

Preceded by Shōtoku (正徳)	Era or nengō Kyōhō (享保) 1716–1736	Succeeded by Genbun (元文)

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[1] Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Kyōhō" Japan Encyclopedia, p. 584 , p. 584, at Google Books; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File Archived 2012-05-24 at archive.today .

[2] Titsingh, Issac. (1834). Annales des empereurs to japon, pp. 416–417.

[3] Bowman, John Stewart. (2000). Columbia Chronologies of Asian History and Culture, p. 142.

[pf320-4] 1 2 3 Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1956). Kyoto: the Old Capital, 794–1869, p. 320.

[5] Foreign Press Center. (1997). Japan: Eyes on the Country, Views of the 47 Prefectures, p. 127.

[6] Adams, Thomas. (1953). Japanese Securities Markets: A Historical Survey, p. 11.

[7] Adams, p. 12.

[8] Hayami, Akira et al. (2004) The Economic History of Japan: 1600–1990, p. 67.

[9] Hall, John. (1988). The Cambridge History of Japan, p. 456.

[takeyoshi352-10] 1 2 Takekoshi, Yosaburō. (1930). Economic Aspects of the History of the Civilization of Japan, p. 352.

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