However Emperor Higashiyama's era was in the Genroku era, there was an overlapped in the period of Tsunayoshi TOKUGAWA's shogunate era, that was called inukubo (he was called the Dog Shogun as he issued an regulation to protect animals).
しかし東山天皇の在位期間は所謂元禄時代に相当し、犬公方とよばれた徳川綱吉の将軍在職期間と重なっている。