Tenna

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Tenna (天和, Tenna^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Enpō and before Jōkyō. This period spanned the years from 1681 through 1684. The reigning emperor was Reigen-tennō (霊元天皇, Reigen-tennō^?).^[1]

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

[edit] Change of era

Tenna gannen (天和元年, Tenna gannen^?); 1681: The new era name of Tenna (meaning "Heavenly Imperial Peace") was created to mark the 58th year of a cycle of the Chinese zodiac. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Empō 9, on the 29th day of the 9th month.

[edit] Events of the Tenna era

Tenna 1 (1681): In Edo, the investiture of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi as the fifth shogun of the Edo bakufu.^[2]
Tenna 1, on the 28th day of the 12th month (1681): The Great Tenna Fire in Edo.^[3]
Tenna 2 (1681): A famine afflicts Heian-kyō and the nearby areas.^[3]
Tenna 2, on the 22nd day of the 2nd month (1682): The former-Emperor Go-Sai dies; and a large comet appears in the night sky.^[3]
Tenna 3 (March 3, 1683): Yaoya Oshichi was burned at the stake for arson.
Tenna 3 (1683): Tokugawa shogunate grants permission for Mitsui money exchanges (ryōgaeten) to be established in Edo.^[4]
Tenna 4 (1683): The assassination of Hotta Masatoshi signals the end of government characterized by financial sobriety and stringency, and the beginning of a swing towards extravagance and the expansive spending policies of Tsunayoshi's chamberlains.^[5]

[edit] References

^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 414-415.
^ Titsingh, p. 414.
^ ^a ^b ^c Titsingh, p. 415.
^ Hiroshi Shinjō. (1962). History of the Yen: 100 Years of Japanese Money-economy, p. 11.
^ Bodart-Bailey, Beatrice. (2006). The Dog Shogun: The Personality and Policies of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, p. 183.

Bodart-Bailey, Beatrice. (2006). The Dog Shogun: The Personality and Policies of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 0-8248-2066-5
Screech, Timon. (2006). Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822. London: RoutledgeCurzon. ISBN 0-700-71720-X
Shinjō, Hiroshi. (1962). History of the Yen: 100 Years of Japanese Money-economy. Kobe: Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration, Kōbe University.
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)