Tenryaku
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Tenryaku (天暦?) was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō,?, lit. "year name") after Tengyō and before Tentoku. This period spanned the years from 947 through 957. The reigning emperor was Murakami-tennō (村上天皇?).[1]
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[edit] Change of era
- Tenryaku gannen (天暦元年?); 947: The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Tengyō 10, on the 24th day of the 4th month of 947.[2].
[edit] Events of the Tenryaku era
- Tenryaku 1, in the 9th month (947): Construction began on the Kitano Shrine.[3]
- Tenryaku 1, in the 11th month (947): The emperor went hunting at Uji.[3]
- Tenryaku 2 (948): There was a great drought in the summer and strong rains in the autumn.[3]
- Tenryaku 2,on the 24th day of the 8th month (948): The sun and the moon were both visible in the sky at the same time.[3]
- Tenryaku 3, on the 14th day of the 8th month (949): Fujiwara no Tadahira died at the age of 70. He had been sesshō for 20 years, and he was kampaku for 8 years.[4]
- Tenryaku 3, in the 9th month (949):The former-Emperor Yōzei died at the age of 82.[4]
- Tenryaku 4, in the 7th month (950): Murakami causes a proclamation that his infant son, Norihira, will be his official heir and Crown Prince.[4]
- Tenryaku 5 (951): The pagoda at Daigo-ji is now the oldest building in Kyoto.
[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
| Tenryaku | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th |
| Gregorian | 947 | 948 | 949 | 950 | 951 | 952 | 953 | 954 | 956 | 957 |
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