Ten'yō

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Ten'yō (天養, Ten'yō^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Kōji and before Kyūan. This period spanned the year from 1144 through 1145. The reigning emperor was Konoe-tennō (近衛天皇, Konoe-tennō^?).^[1]

1 Change of Era
2 Events of the Ten'yō Era
3 References
- 3.1 External links

[edit] Change of Era

Ten'yō gannen (天養元年, Ten'yō gannen^?); 1144: The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in Kōji 3, on the 22nd day of the 2nd month of 1144.^[2]

[edit] Events of the Ten'yō Era

Ten'yō 1, in the 7th month (1144): A new era name was created because a comet was sighted in the sky in the 7th month of Ten'yō gannen.^[3] The old era ended and a new one commenced in Kōji 3, on the 22nd day of the 2nd month of 1144.^[2]
Ten'yō 1, in the 8th month (1145): The empress Taiken-mon In, mother of former-Emperor Sutoku died.^[3]
Ten'yō 1 (1145): The emperor went to Iwashimizu Shrine and to the Kamo Shrines.^[3]

[edit] References

^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des emepereurs du japon, pp. 186-188; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 324-326; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki, p. 205.
^ ^a ^b Brown, p. 325.
^ ^a ^b ^c Titsingh, p. 186.

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, 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