Tenji (era)

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Tenji (天治, Tenji^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Hōan and before Daiji. This period spanned the years from 1124 through 1126. The reigning emperor was Sutoku-tennō (崇徳天皇, Sutoku-tennō^?).^[1]

1 Change of Era
2 Events of the Tenji Era
3 References
- 3.1 External links

[edit] Change of Era

Tenji gannen (天治元年, Tenji gannen^?); 1124: The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Hōan 5, on the 3rd day of the 4th month of 1126.^[2]

[edit] Events of the Tenji Era

Tenji 1, in the 2nd month (1124): Former-Emperor Horikawa and former-Emperor Toba went in carriages to outside the city where they could all together enjoy contemplating the flowers. Taiken-mon In (formerly Fujiwara no Shōshi), who was Toba's empress and Sutoku's mother, joined the procession along with many other women of the court. Their cortege was brilliant and colorful. A great many men of the court in hunting clothes followed the ladies in this parade. Fujiwara Tadamichi then followed in a carriage, accompanied by bands of musicians and women who were to sing for the emperors.^[3]
Tenji 1, in the 10th month (1124): Horikawa visited Mount Koya.^[4]
Tenji 2, in the 10th month (1125): The emperor visited Iwashimizu Shrine and the Kamo Shrines; and afterwards, he also visited the shrines Hirano, Ōharano, Mutsunoo, Kitano, Gion and several others.^[4]

[edit] References

^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des emepereurs du japon, pp. 181-185; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 322-324; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki, pp. 204-205.
^ Brown, p. 323.
^ Titsingh, p. 182; Varley, p. 204.
^ ^a ^b Titsingh, p. 182.

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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