Shōka
"Shōka" was also the Japanese name for Changhua City, Taiwan, while "Shoka" is the foreshortened name of the town of Shokat as-Sufi in the Gaza Strip.
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Shōka (正嘉) was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō,, lit. "year name") after Kōgen and before Shōgen. This period spanned the years from March 1257 to March 1259.[1] The reigning emperor was Go-Fukakusa-tennō (後深草天皇).[2]
Change of era
- 1257 Shōka gannen (正嘉元年): The new era name was created to mark an event or a number of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in Kōgen 2.
Events of the Shōka era
- 1257 (Shōka 1): A major epidemic.[3]
Notes
- ↑ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Shōka" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 882, p. 882, at Google Books; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File.
- ↑ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, pp. 248-255; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki. p. 231-232.
- ↑ Lee, Sherman E. (1983). Reflections of Reality in Japanese Art, p. 227.
References
- Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128
- Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Nihon Odai Ichiran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC 5850691
- Varley, H. Paul. (1980). A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-04940-5; OCLC 6042764
External links
- National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection
| Preceded by Kōgen |
Era or nengō Shōka 1257–1259 |
Succeeded by Shōgen |
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