Tengyō
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Tengyō (天慶?) was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō,?, lit. "year name") after Jōhei and before Tenryaku. This period spanned the years from 938 through 947. The reigning emperors were Suzaku-tennō (朱雀天皇?) and Murakami-tennō (村上天皇?).[1]
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[edit] Change of era
- Tengyō gannen (天慶元年?); 938: The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Jōhei 8, on the 23rd day of the 5th month.[2]
[edit] Events of the Tengyō era
- Tengyō 1, on the 4th day of the 3rd month (938): Ten pairs of roosters were matched-up in cockfights before the emperor.[3]
- Tengyō 1, in the 4th month (938): Serial intermittent ground-tremors were felt in Heian-kyo from the 10th through the 29th days of this month.[3]
- Tengyō 1, in the 1st month (939): Fujiwara no Tadahira celebrated his 60th birthday.[3]
- Tengyō 2, in the 5th month (939): The udaijin Fujiwara no Tsunesuke died.[3]
- Tengyō 4, in the 11th month (939): The emepror created Tadahira kampaku.[4]
- Tengyō 7, in the 11th month (944): Fujiwara no Saneyori, the eldest son of Tadhira, was named udiajin.[4]
- Tengyō 8, in the 11th month (945): the sadaijin Fujiwara no Nakahira died at age 71.[4]
- Tengyō 9, the 13th day of the 4th month (946): In the 16th year of the reign of Suzaku-tennō (朱雀天皇17年), the emperor abdicated; and the succession (the senso) was received by his younger brother, Nariakira-shinnō.[5]
- Tengyō 9, the 28th day of the 4th month (946): Emperor Murakami, who was 21 years old, acceded to the throne (the sokui).[6]
[edit] References
- ^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, pp. 134-155; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, p. 294-295; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki, p. 181-183.
- ^ Brown, p. 295.
- ^ a b c d Titsingh, p. 136.
- ^ a b c Titsingh, p. 138.
- ^ Brown, p. 295; 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.]
- ^ Titsingh, p. 139; Varley, p. 44.
- 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 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
[edit] External links
- National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection
| Tengyō | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th |
| Gregorian | 938 | 939 | 940 | 941 | 942 | 943 | 944 | 945 | 946 | 947 |
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