Bunji (Japanese era)
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xBunji (文治?) was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō,?, lit. "year name") after Genryaku and before Kenkyū. This period spanned the years from 1185 through 1190. The reigning emperor was Go-Toba-tennō (後鳥羽天皇?).[1]
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[edit] Change of era
- Bunji gannen (文治元年?); 1185: The new era name was created to mark an event or a number of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in Genryaku 2, on the 16th day of the 4th month of 1184.[2]
[edit] Events of the Bunji era
- Bunji 1, 29th day of the 11th month (1185): The court formally approves of establishment of a shogonate government at Kamakura in the Kantō region.[3]
- Bunji 2, 4th month (1186): Go-Shirakawa visits Kenrei-mon In at her humble retreat in Ohara.[3]
[edit] References
- 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
- Kitagawa, Hiroshi and Bruce T. Tsuchida, eds. (1975). The Tale of the Heike. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press. ISBN 0-86008-128-1
- 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
[edit] External links
- National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection
| Bunji | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th |
| Gregorian | 1185 | 1186 | 1187 | 1188 | 1189 | 1190 |
| Preceded by Genryaku |
Era or nengō Bunji 1185 – 1190 |
Succeeded by Kenkyū |
