いっせいいちげん

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of いっせいいちげん – see the following entry.
【一世一元】
[noun] [from 1868] (monarchy) an East Asian practice of dating, using exactly one distinct era name for each monarch's reign, where such era name also eventually becomes the monarch's posthumous name
(This term, いっせいいちげん (isseīchigen), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
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