Bun'ō

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Bun'ō (文応, Bun'ō^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Shōka and before Kōchō. This period spanned the years from 1260 to 1261. The reigning emperor was Kameyama-tennō (亀山天皇, Kameyama-tennō^?).^[1]

Contents 1 Change of era 2 Events of the Bun'ō era 3 References 3.1 External links

[edit] Change of era

• Bun'ō gannen (文応元年, Bun'ō gannen^?); 1260: The new era name was created to mark an event or a number of events. The years of the Shōgen era was in a period marked by famine and epidemics; and the era name was changed in quick succession in the hope that this might bring them to a close.^[2] The previous era ended and a new one commenced in Shōka 3.

[edit] Events of the Bun'ō era

• Bun'ō 1 (1260):

[edit] References

• Titsingh, Isaac, ed. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō, 1652], Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon, tr. par M. Isaac Titsingh avec l'aide de plusieurs interprètes attachés au comptoir hollandais de Nangasaki; ouvrage re., complété et cor. sur l'original japonais-chinois, accompagné de notes et précédé d'un Aperçu d'histoire mythologique du Japon, par M. J. Klaproth. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland....Click link for digitized, full-text copy of this book (in French)
• Varley, H. Paul , ed. (1980). [ Kitabatake Chikafusa, 1359], Jinnō Shōtōki ("A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa" translated by H. Paul Varley). New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-04940-4

[edit] External links

• National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection

Bun'ō	1st	2nd
Gregorian	1260	1261

Preceded by Shōgen

Era or nengō Bun'ō 1260 – 1261

Succeeded by Kōchō