also: しょうげん
noun
Jōgen era; Shōgen era
Japanese era name spanning 1207–1211. The reading じょうげん is standard; しょうげん is a less common variant.
承元は鎌倉時代の元号の一つです。
Jōgen is one of the era names of the Kamakura period.
この文書は承元二年に書かれた。
This document was written in the second year of the Jōgen era.
The era name 承元 (Jōgen) was adopted in the early Kamakura period. The exact derivation of the characters is uncertain, but they are conventionally associated with the meaning 'receiving origin' or 'inheriting foundation'.