was a after Yōrō and before Tenpyō. This period spanned the years from February 724 through August 729.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Jinki" in . The reigning emperor was .Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, p. 67–68; Brown, Delmer M. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 272–273; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki, pp. 141–143.
Change of era 724 : The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Yōrō 8, on the 4th day of the 2nd month of 724.Brown, p. 273. The new era name meant "Sacred tortoise".Bialock, David T. (2007). Eccentric Spaces, Hidden Histories: Narrative, Ritual, and Authority from The Chronicles of Japan to The Tale of the Heike, p. 63.
Events of the Jinki era 727 (Jinki 4): The emperor sent commissioners into all the provinces to examine the administrations of the governors and the conduct of all public functionaries.Titsingh, p. 68. 728 (Jinki 5): An ambassador from Korea was received in court.
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References Brown, Delmer M. and Ichirō Ishida, eds. (1979). Gukanshō: The Future and the Past. Berkeley: University of California Press. ; OCLC 251325323 Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ; OCLC 58053128 Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Nihon Ōdai 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. ; OCLC 6042764
External links National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection