Ten'ei

Ten'ei (天永, Ten'ei^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Tennin and before Eikyū. This period spanned the years from 1110 through 1113. The reigning emperor was Emperor Toba-tennō (鳥羽天皇, Emperor Toba-tennō^?).^[1]

[edit] Change of Era

Ten'ei gannen (天永元年, Ten'ei gannen^?); 1110: The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Tennin 4, on the 16th day of the 7th month of 1110.^[2]

Ten'ei 1, in the 5th month (1109): Emperor Toba visited Hossho-ji where donated a manuscript a Buddhist manuscript which had been created using gold characters on blue paper.^[3]
Ten'ei 1, in the 6th month (1110): The Midera-ji burned down. This was the second time the temple was destroyed by fire, the first time being in 1081.^[4]

^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, pp. 178-180; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, p. 321; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki, pp. 200-204.
^ Brown, p. 321.
^ Titsingh, p. 179.
^ Brown, p. 322.

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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 Society 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