Tenroku

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Tenroku (天禄, Tenroku^?) was a Japanese era (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Anna and before Ten'en. This period spanned the years from 970 through 973. The reigning emperors were Reizei-tennō (冷泉天皇, Reizei-tennō^?) and En'yū-tennō (円融天皇, En'yū-tennō^?).^[1]

1 Change of era
2 Events of the Tenroku era
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Change of era

Tenroku gannen (天禄元年, Tenroku gannen^?); 970: The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Anna 3, on the 25th day of the 3rd month of 970.^[2].

[edit] Events of the Tenroku era

Tenroku 1, in the 1st month (970): Fujiwara no Arihira (藤原在衡 , Fujiwara no Arihira^?) became sadaijin, and Fujiwara no Koretada藤原伊尹 ({{{2}}}, Fujiwara no Koretada藤原伊尹 ^?) became udaijin.^[3]
Tenroku 1, in the 5th month (970): The sesshō (regent) and daijō-daijin Fujiwara no Saneyori (藤原実頼, Fujiwara no Saneyori^?) died at the age of 71; and the udaijin Koretada then assumed his responsibilities.^[3]
Tenroku 1, in the 10th month (970): The sadaijin Fujiwara no Arihira (藤原実頼, Fujiwara no Arihira^?) died at age 79.^[3]
Tenroku 2, in the 3rd month (971): For the first time, a festival (matsuri) in honor of the kami of Iwashimizu Shrine was celebrated.^[3]
Tenroku 2, in the 11th month (971): Koretada was created daijō-daijin; Minamoto no Kaneakira (源兼明, Minamoto no Kaneakira^?)　 was made sadaijin; and Fujiwara no Yoritada (藤原頼忠, Fujiwara no Yoritada^?) was named udaijin.^[4]
Tenroku 3, on the 5th day of the 3rd month (972): Emperor En'yū's coronation at age 14 is organized by Koretada.^[5]
Tenroku 3, in the 11th month (972): Koretada dies at age 49.^[5]

[edit] References

^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales ds empereurs du japon, pp. 144-148; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 299-300; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki, pp. 191-192.
^ Brown, p. 298.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Titsingh, p. 144.
^ Titsingh, pp. 144-145.
^ ^a ^b Titsingh, p. 145.

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