Kōshō

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Kōshō (康正) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,, lit. "year name") after Kyōtoku and before Chōroku. This period spanned the years from July 1455 through September 1457.^[1] The reigning emperor was Go-Hanazono-tennō (後花園天皇).^[2]

Change of Era

• 1455 Kōshō gannen (康正元年): The era name was changed to mark an event or a number of events.

Events of the Kōshō era

• 1456 (Kōshō 2, 3rd month): Ashikaga Yoshimasa visited Iwashimizu Shrine; and all the officials of the Daijō-kan joined him in going there.^[3]
• 1456 (Kōshō 2, 8th month): The father of Emperor Go-Hanazono, Fushimi-no-miya-shinnō Sadafusa, died at age 85.^[3]

Notes

References

• Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 48943301
• 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

External links

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