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Heiji (平治^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Hōgen and before Eiryaku. This period spanned the years from 1159 through 1160. The reigning emperor was Emperor Nijō-tennō (二条天皇^?).^[1]

1 Change of era
2 Events of the Heiji era
3 Notes
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Change of era

January 21, 1159 Heiji gannen (平治元年^?): The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in Hōgen 4, on the 20th day of the 4th month of 1159.^[2]

[edit] Events of the Heiji era

January 23, 1159 (Heiji 1, the 3rd day of the 1st month ): The emperor visited his father.^[3]
January 19–May 5, 1159 (Heiji 1, 9th-26th day of the 12th month): The "Heiji Rebellion",^[4] also known as the "Heiji Insurrection" or the "Heiji War."

[edit] Notes

^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des emepereurs du japon, pp. 191-194; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 327-329; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki, pp. 208-212.
^ Brown, p. 328.
^ Titsingh, p. 191.
^ Kitagawa, H. (1975), The Tale of the Heike, p. 783.

[edit] References

Brown, Delmer and Ichiro Ishida, eds. (1979). [ Jien, c. 1220], Gukanshō; "The Future and the Past: a translation and study of the 'Gukanshō,' an interpretive history of Japan written in 1219" translated from the Japanese and edited by Delmer M. Brown & Ichirō Ishida. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-03460-0
Kitagawa, Hiroshi and Bruce T. Tsuchida, eds. (1975). The Tale of the Heike. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press. ISBN 0-86008-128-1
Titsingh, Isaac, ed. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō, 1652], Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.
Varley, H. Paul , ed. (1980). [ Kitabatake Chikafusa, 1359], Jinnō Shōtōki ("A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa" translated by H. Paul Varley). New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-04940-4

[edit] External links

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

Heiji	1st	2nd
Gregorian	1159	1160

Preceded by:
Hōgen

Era or nengō:
Heiji

Succeeded by:
Eiryaku

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^₪ Nengō promulgated by pretender emperors ^‡ Meitoku 3 is the same as Genchū 9 upon reunification.

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[edit] Change of era

[edit] Events of the Heiji era

[edit] Notes

[edit] References

[edit] External links