nengo

Updated: May 28, 2025

Thus, whereas the Southern Court used the year-name Engen for 1336-1339, the North kept the year-name Kemmu for two years, and as there were different nengo names for half a century, a new element of confusion was added to the already perplexing chronology of Japan. In administrative methods there was a difference.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era