Kakitsu

Kakitsu (嘉吉) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,, lit. "year name") after Eikyō and before Bun'an. This period started in February 1441 and ended in February 1444.^[1] During this time, the emperor was Go-Hanazono-tennō (後花園天皇).^[2]

Events of the Kakitsu era

In the 1st year of Kakitsu, Ashikaga Yoshinori died. He is remembered at this site

• 12 July 1441 (Kakitsu 1, 24th day of the 6th month): Shogun Ashikaga Yoshinori was murdered at age 48.^[3]
• 1443 (Kakitsu 3): A Japanese-Korean diplomatic agreement (sometimes called the "Kakitsu treaty") was about on pirates (wakō) in the sea between Japan and Korea.^[4]
• 16 August 1443 (Kakitsu 3, 21st day of the 7th month): Shogun Yoshikatsu died after a fall from a horse.^[5]

Related pages

• Muromachi period

References

1. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Kaikitsu" in Japan encyclopedia, p. 456.
2. Nussbaum, "Go-Hanazono Tennō," p. 252; Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, pp. 331-343.
3. Titsingh, p. 339; Nussbaum, "Kaikitsu-no-hen" at p. 456.
4. Hall, John Whitney. (1997). The Cambridge History of Japan: Early Modern Japan, p. 244.
5. Titsingh, p. 342.

Other websites

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

Kakitsu	1st	2nd	3rd	4th
	1441	1442	1443	1444

Preceded by: Eikyō

Era or nengō: Kakitsu

Succeeded by: Bun'an