Chokyo

All you want to know about Chokyo

Chōkyō (長享, Chōkyō^?) was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō, lit. year name) after Bunmei and before Entoku. This period spanned the years from 1487 through 1489. The reigning emperor was Go-Tsuchimikado-tennō (後土御門天皇).^[1]

1 Change of era
2 Events of the Chōkyō era
3 References
4 External links

Change of era

Chōkyō gannen (長享元年, Chōkyō gannen^?); 1487: The era name was changed to mark an event or a number of events. The old era ended and a new one commenced in Bunmei 19.

Events of the Chōkyō era

Chōkyō 1 (1487): Takatskasa-no Masahira was replaced as kampaku by the former naidaijin Kiyosho-no Masatada.^[2]
Chōkyō 1, in the 8th month (1487): Udaijin Ōe-no mikado Nobukatsu died at age 42.^[2]
Chōkyō 1, in the 8th month (1487): Shogun Yoshihisa led a large army against Rokkaku Takayori (Rokkaku Tobatsu), the daimyo of southern Ōmi province.^[3]

References

^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, pp. 352-364.
^ ^a ^b Titsingh, p. 360.
^ Titsingh, p. 361.

Titsingh, Isaac, ed. (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)