Gennin

<h2 id="change-of-era">Change of era</h2>
<ul><li>1224 <i>Gennin gannen</i> (元仁元年):  The era name was changed to mark an event or a number of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in <i>Jōō</i> 3.</li></ul>
<h2 id="events-of-the-genninera">Events of the <i>Gennin</i> Era</h2>
<ul><li>1224 (<i>Gennin 1</i>): <i><a href="/facts/Kyogyoshinsho/3bu3Efn1">Kyogyoshinsho</a></i> was believed to have been composed in 1224; and this is also considered the year in which <a href="/facts/J%25C5%258Ddo_Shinsh%25C5%25AB/6EPz7Jtb">Jōdo Shinshū</a> was founded.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a></li></ul>
<h2 id="notes">Notes</h2>

<ul><li>Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC"><i>Japan encyclopedia.</i></a> Cambridge: <a href="/facts/Harvard_University_Press/YluAnq74">Harvard University Press</a>. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-674-01753-5; <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58053128?referer=di&ht=edition">OCLC 58053128</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Isaac_Titsingh/Uc4xEeAw">Titsingh, Isaac.</a> (1834). <i><a href="/facts/Nihon_Odai_Ichiran/XjJDmjmC">Nihon Odai Ichiran</a></i>; ou, <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&q=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran"><i>Annales des empereurs du Japon.</i></a>  Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5850691">OCLC 5850691</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/H._Paul_Varley/AVUf0pTI">Varley, H. Paul</a>. (1980). <i>A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa.</i> New York: <a href="/facts/Columbia_University_Press/5dVrKLey">Columbia University Press</a>. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-231-04940-5; <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6042764">OCLC 6042764</a></li></ul>
<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li>National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" <a href="http://www.ndl.go.jp/koyomi/e/">-- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

<ol>
<li id="fn:1"><p>Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Gennin" in Japan encyclopedia, p. 239; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC&pg=PA239" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC&pg=PA239</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, pp. 238-241; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki. pp. 226-227. <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Yamamoto,	Kōshō. (1955). The Shinshu Seiten: the Holy Scripture of Shinshu, p. 343. <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
</ol>

Gennin open-in-new

Gennin