Jian (era)

Jian (治安) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,; lit. "year name"), also known as Chi'an, after Kannin and before Manju. This period started in February 1021[1] and ended in July 1024.[2] The reigning emperor was Go-Ichijō-tennō (後一条天皇).[3]

Events of the Jian era

  • 1023 (Jian 3, 4th month): A major epidemic in Kyoto;[4] disease spread throughout the country.[5]
  • 1023 (Jian 3, 10th month): Fujiwara no Michinaga visited Mount Koya.[6]
  • 29 December 1023 (Jian 3, 14th day of the 11th month): a lunar eclipse.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Kannin" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 474.
  2. ↑ Nussbaum. "Manjū" at p. 607.
  3. ↑ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, pp. 156-159; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 307-310; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki. p. 195-196.
  4. ↑ Dykstra, Yoshiko Kurata. (2001). The Konjaku Tales: from a Medieval Japanese Collection, Vol. 2, p. 13.
  5. ↑ Horton, Sarah J. (2007). Living Buddhist Statues in Early Medieval and Modern Japan, p. 143.
  6. ↑ Nihon Kiristokyō Kyōgikai. (2001). Japanese Religions, Vols. 26-27, pp. 34-35.
  7. ↑ Pankenier, David. (1999). Archaeoastronomy in East Asia: Historical Observational Records of Comets and Meteor Showers from China, Japan, and Korea, p. 89.

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