Hōgen (era)

Hōgen (保元) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,, lit. "year name") after Kyūju and before Heiji. This period spanned the years from 1156 through 1159. The reigning emperors were Emperor Go-Shirakawa-tennō (後白河天皇) and Emperor Nijō-tennō (二条天皇).

Change of era

• Hōgen gannen (保元元年); 1156: The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in Kyūju 3, on the 24th day of the 4th month of 1156.

Events of the Hōgen era

• Hōgen 1, 2nd day of the 7th month (1156): Cloistered Emperor Toba-in died at age 54.
• Hōgen 1, 10th-29th days of the 7th month (1156): The Hōgen Rebellion, also known as the Hōgen Insurrection or the Hōgen War.
• Hōgen 1, in the 9th month (1156): The naidaijin Fujiwara Saneyoshi was named sadaijin. The dainagon Fujiwara Koremichi became naidaijin. After the was, tranquility was restored throughout the empire; and the emperor himself was in charge of the government. A special building was constructed in Kyoto, where -- as in the days of Emperor Go-Sanjo, requests and complaints were received and examined.
• Hōgen 2, in the 8th month (1157): Sanjō Saneyuki was dismissed from his position as daijō-daijin; and in the same month, the sadaijin Saneyoshi died. The udaijin Fujiwara no Munesuke was made daijō-daijin. The naidaijin Koremichi was made sadaijin. Fujiwara no Moresane, who was the 15-year-old son of son of kampaku Fujiwara no Tadamichi, became udaijin. The dainagon Sanjō Kinori, who was the son of Saneyuki, obtained the position of naidaijin.
• Hōgen 2, in the 10th month (1157): The foundations are laid for a grand audience hall (dairi) in the palace. Three had not been such a structure within the palace compound since the time of Emperor Shirakawa.
• Hōgen 3, on the 11th day of the 8th month (1158): In the 3rd year of Go-Shirakawa-tennō's reign (後白河天皇25年), the emperor abdicated; and the succession (‘‘senso’’) was received by his eldest son.
• Hōgen 4, in the 8th month (1158): Emperor Nijō is said to have acceded to the throne (‘‘sokui’’).

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 086008-128-1
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• 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

Hōgen	1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Gregorian	1156	1157	1158	1159

Preceded by: Kyūju

Era or nengō: Hōgen

Succeeded by: Heiji