Ten'ō

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Ten'ō (天応, Ten'ō^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Hōki and before Enryaku. This period spanned the years from 781 through 782. The reigning emperor was Kōnin-tennō (光仁天皇, Kōnin-tennō^?).^[1]

1 Change of era
2 Events of the Ten'ō era
3 References
- 3.1 External links

[edit] Change of era

Ten'ō gannen (天応元年, Ten'ō gannen^?); 781): The new era name was created to mrk an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Hōki 12, on the 1st day of the 1st month of 781.^[2]

[edit] Events of the Ten'ō era

Ten'ō 1, on the 3rd day of the 12th month (天応元年, 781: In 11th year of the reign of Emperor Kōnin's reign (光仁天皇11年), he abdicated; and the succession (the senso) was received by his son.^[3] Shortly thereafter, Emperor Kammu is said to have acceded to the throne (‘‘sokui’’).^[4]

[edit] References

^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, pp. 81-85; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 276-277; Varley, H. Paul. Jinnō Shōtōki, pp. 147-148.
^ Brown, p. 277.
^ Titsingh, pp. 85-86; Brown, p. 277.
^ Titsingh, p. 86; Varley, p. 44. [A distinct act of senso is unrecognized prior to Emperor Tenji; and all sovereigns except Jitō, Yōzei, Go-Toba, and Fushimi have senso and sokui in the same year until the reign of Go-Murakami.]

Brown, Delmer and Ichiro Ishida, eds. (1979). [ Jien, c. 1220], Gukanshō; "The Future and the Past: a translation and study of the 'Gukanshō,' an interpretive history of Japan written in 1219" translated from the Japanese and edited by Delmer M. Brown & Ichirō Ishida. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-03460-0
Titsingh, Isaac. (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 0-321-04940-4