Shōtoku (正徳, Shōtoku^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Hōei and before Kyōhō. This period spanned the years from 1711 through 1716. The reigning emperor was Nakamikado-tennō (中御門天皇, Nakamikado-tennō^?).^[1]

Change of Era

• Shōtoku gannen (正徳元年, Shōtoku gannen^?); 1711: The era name of Shōtoku (meaning "Righteous Virtue") was created to mark the enthronement of Emperor Nakamikado. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Hōei 8, on the 25th day of the 4th month.

Events of the Shōtoku Era

• Shōtoku 1 (1711): An ambassador from Korea arrived at the court.^[2]
• Shōtoku 2, on the 14th day of the 10th month (1712): Shogun Tokugawa Ienobu died.^[2]
• Shōtoku 3 (1713): Minamoto no Ietsugu became the 7th shogun of the Edo bakufu.^[2]
• Shōtoku 4 (1714): The shogunate introduces new gold and silver coins into circulation.^[2]
• Shōtoku 5, on the 17th day of the 3rd month (1715): The 100th anniversary of the death of Tokugawa Ieyasu (posthumously known as Gongen-sama), which was celebrated throughout the empire.^[1]

References

• Screech, Timon. (2006). Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822. London: RoutledgeCurzon. ISBN 0-700-71720-X
• Titsingh, Isaac. (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)

External links

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

Shōtoku	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th
Gregorian	1711	1712	1713	1714	1715	1716

Preceded by: Hōei

Era or nengō: Shōtoku

Succeeded by: Kyōhō

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