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The Saimei period is a chronological timeframe during the Asuka period of Japanese history. The Saimei period describes a span of years which were considered to have begun in the 1315th year of the Yamato dynasty.〔Murray, David. (1894). , citing William Bramsen. (1880). ; compare, the Japanese National Diet Library website explains that ("Japan organized its first calendar in the 12th year of Suiko (604)" ), which was a pre-''nengō'' time frame.〕 This periodization is congruent with the reign of Empress Saimei, which is traditionally considered to have been from 655 through 662.〔Murray, ; the system of counting from year-periods (nengō) do not ordinarily overlap with the reigns of the early monarchs; and generally, a new one was chosen whenever it was deemed necessary to commemorate an auspicious or ward off a malign event.〕 ==Periodization== The adoption of the Sexagenary cycle calendar (''Jikkan Jūnishi'') in Japan is attributed to Empress Suiko in 604;〔Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''Jikkan Jūnishi''" in ; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, ''see'' (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File )〕 and this Chinese calendar continued in use throughout the Saimei period. In 645, the system of was introduced.〔Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). .〕 However, after the reign of Emperor Kotoku, this method of segmenting was temporarily abandoned or allowed to lapse. This interval continued during the Saimei period. Neither Empress Saimei's reign nor the Saimei periodization are included in the list of ''nengō'' for this explicit duration of time, which comes after Hakuchi and before Suchō. In the post-Taika or pre-Taihō chronology, the first year of Empress Saimei's reign (斉明天皇元年 or 斉明天皇1年) is also construed as the first year of the Saimei period (斉明1年).〔Tsuchihashi, Paul. (1952). ( ''Japanese Chronological Tables from 601 to 1872,'' p. 16 ).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Saimei period」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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