Shuchō

, alternatively read as Suchō or Akamitori, was a after a gap following Hakuchi (650-654) and before another gap lasting until Taihō (701-704). This Shuchō period briefly spanned a period of months from 686 through 687. The reigning sovereigns were and .

Change of era

• ; 686: The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events, but the nengō did not survive Emperor Temmu's death. The era ended with the accession of Temmu's successor, Empress Jitō.

Events of the Shuchō era

• Shuchō 1 (January 10, 686): Earthquake.
• Shuchō 1 (January 14, 686): Imperial palace at Naniwa burned.
• Shuchō 1 (June 10, 686) Sickness of Emperor Temmu is foretold. Blamed on curse of Kusanagi sword and hence returned to Atsuta Shrine in Owari Province.
• Shuchō 1 (July 20, 686): The nengō (era name) changed to Shuchō.
• Shuchō 1 (686): Emperor Temmu dies and is succeeded by his niece and wife, who becomes Empress Jitō.
• Shuchō 1 (686): Emperor Temmu's son, Prince Ōtsu, tries in vain to seize the throne, and is executed.

Empress Jitō distributed rice to the aged throughout the years of her reign.

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
• Hioki, Eigō. (2007). Dai Ikkan: -1000, Vol. 1 (Shin Kokushi Dainenhyō). Tokyo: Kokusho Kankōkai. ISBN 978-4-336-04826-4
• 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)
• 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

External links

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

Shuchō	1st	2nd
Gregorian	686	687