Shōō (Kamakura period)

This article is about the Japanese era name. For the town, see Shōō, Okayama. For the S.E.S. member Shoo, see Yoo Soo-Young.

Shōō (正応) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,, lit. "year name") after Kōan and before Einin. This period spanned the years from 1288 through 1293. The reigning emperor was Fushimi-tennō (伏見天皇).

Change of era

• Shōō gannen (正応元年); 1288: The new era name was created to mark an event or a number of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in Kōan 11.

Events of the Shōō era

• Shōō 1 (1288):

References

• Titsingh, Isaac, ed. (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 to digital, 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

Shōō	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th
Gregorian	1288	1289	1290	1291	1292	1293

Preceded by: Kōan

Era or nengō: Shōō

Succeeded by: Einin