Tenchō

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Tenchō (天長, Tenchō^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Kōnin and before Jōwa. This period spanned the years from 824 through 834. The reigning emperors were Junna-tennō (淳和天皇, Junna-tennō^?) and Ninmyō-tennō (仁明天皇, Ninmyō-tennō^?).^[1]

1 Change of era
2 Events of the Tenchō era
3 References
- 3.1 External links

[edit] Change of era

Tenchō gannen (天長元年, Tenchō gannen^?); 824: The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Kōnin 15, on the 5th day of the 1st month of 824.^[2]

[edit] Events of the Tenchō era

Tenchō 1 (824): This summer was entirely dry; and prayers for rain were offered by the Buddhist priest Kūkai, who is also known by the posthumous name, Kōbō-Daishi. Those prayers seemed to be answered when it did begin to rain sometime later.^[3]
Tenchō 1, in the 7th month (824): The former-Emperor Heisei died at age 51.^[3]
Tenchō 2, in the 11th month (825): The former-Emperor Saga celebrated his 40th birthday.^[4]
Tenchō 3, in the 11th month (826): Kōbō-Daishi counsels the emperor to build a pagoda near To-ji in Heian-kyō.^[5]

[edit] References

^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, pp. 102-106; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, pp.282-283; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki, p. 164.
^ Brown, p. 282.
^ ^a ^b Titsingh, p. 103.
^ Titsingh, p. 104.
^ Titsingh, p. 105.

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 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 0-321-04940-4