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Kennin (建仁) was aJapanese era name (年号,nengō; lit. "year name") afterShōji and beforeGenkyū. This period spanned the years from February 1201 through February 1204.^[1] The reigning emperor wasTsuchimikado-tennō (土御門天皇).^[2]

• 1201Kennin gannen (建仁元年); 1201: The new era name was created to mark an event of shin'yū (辛酉), which is considered as the year of revolution inSexagenary cycle. The previous era ended and a new one commenced inShōji 3, on the 13th day of the 2nd month of 1201.^[3]

• 1201 (Kennin 1, May): TheKennin Rebellion is defeated.^[4]
• 1202 (Kennin 2, 1st month):Nitta Yoshishige, the deputy director for cuisine of Dairi (大炊助) inDaijō-kan, died. His court rank had been of the second rank of the fifth class (従五位下).^[5]
• 1202 (Kennin 2, 7th month):Minamoto no Yoriie was raised in the court's hierarchic standing to the second rank of the second class; and he was created the 2nd shōgun of theKamakura shogunate.^[5]
• 1202 (Kennin 2, 10th month):NaidaijinMinamoto no Michichika died at 54; and his court position was then filled bydainagon Fujiwara no Takatada.^[5]
• 1202 (Kennin 2): On orders from Shōgun Minamoto no Yoriie, the monkEisai foundedKennin-ji, a Zen temple and monastery in the Rinzai sect.^[6]
• 1203 (Kennin 3, 8th month): Shōgun Yoriie fell gravely ill.^[5]
• 1203 (Kennin 3, 9th month): Yoriie shaved his head and became a Buddhist priest; and the emperor namedMinamoto no Sanetomo as the 3rd shōgun; andHōjō Tokimasa became Sanetomo'sshikken (regent).^[7]

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• Kitagawa, Hiroshi and Bruce T. Tsuchida, eds. (1975).The Tale of the Heike. Tokyo:University of Tokyo Press.ISBN 9784130870245;ISBN 9784130870238;ISBN 9780860081883;ISBN 9780860081890;OCLC 193064639
• Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005).Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge:Harvard University Press.ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5;OCLC 58053128
• Titsingh, Isaac. (1834).Nihon Odai Ichiran; ou,Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.OCLC 5850691
• Varley, H. Paul. (1980).A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa. New York:Columbia University Press.ISBN 9780231049405;OCLC 6042764

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

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