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Yōrō (養老, Yōrō^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Reiki and before Jinki. This period spanned the years from 717 through 724. The reigning empress was Genshō-tennō (元正天皇, Genshō-tennō^?).¹

Change of era

• Yōrō gannen (養老元年, Yōrō gannen^?); 717: The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Reiki 3, on the 17th day of the 11th month of 717.²

Events of the Yōrō era

• Yōrō 1, in the 3rd month (717): The sadaijin Iso kami Marō died at age 78.³
• Yōrō 1, in the 9th month (717): Empress Genshō traveled through Ōmi province where she was met by the lords of the San'indō, the San'yōdō and the Nankaidō; and she was entertained with singing and dancing. From there, she traveled to Mino province where the lords of the Tōkaidō, Tōsandō and Hokurikudō who rendered similar honors and entertainments.⁴
• Yōrō 2 (718): Revisions and commentaries on the Taihō Code are issued; and these changes are collectively known as the Yōrō Code (養老律令, Yōrō-ritsuryō^?).⁵
• Yōrō 5, in the 5th month (721): The newly completed Nihonshoki in 30 volumes was offered to the Empress.⁶
• Yōrō 5, in the 5th month (721): The udaijin Fujiwara Fuhito died at age 62.⁷
• Yōrō 5, in the 5th month (721): The former-Empress Gemmei died at age 61.⁷

References

• Asakawa, Kan'ichi. (1903). The Early Institutional Life of Japan. Tokyo: Shueisha [New York: Paragon Book Reprint Corp., 1963].
• Brown, Delmer M. and Ichirō Ishida, eds. (1979). [ Jien, c. 1220], Gukanshō (The Future and the Past, a translation and study of the Gukanshō, an interpretative history of Japan written in 1219). Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-03460-0
• 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 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

Yōrō	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th
Gregorian	717	718	719	720	721	722	723	724

Preceded by: Reiki

Era or nengō: Yōrō

Succeeded by: Jinki

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