Tennin (era)
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Tennin (天仁?) was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō,?, lit. "year name") after Kajō and before Ten'ei. This period spanned the years from 1108 through 1110. The reigning emperor was Toba-tennō (鳥羽天皇?).[1]
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[edit] Change of Era
- Tennin gannen (天仁元年?); 1108: The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Kajō 3, on the 3rd day of the 8th month of 1108.[2]
[edit] Events of the Tennin Era
- Tennin 1 (1108): Minamoto no Tameyoshi, grandson and heir of Minamoto no Yoshiie, became clan leader of the Seiwa Genji after the death of his grandfather.[3]
- Tennin 2, in the 1st month (1109): The emperor visited Iwashimizu Shrine and the Kamo Shrines.[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
- 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
[edit] External links
- National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection
| Tennin | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Gregorian | 1108 | 1109 | 1110 |
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