Tentoku

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Tentoku (天徳, Tentoku^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Tengyō and before Ōwa. This period spanned the years from 957 through 961. The reigning emperors was Murakami-tennō (村上天皇, Murakami-tennō^?).^[1]

Contents 1 Change of era 2 Events of the Tentoku era 3 References 3.1 External links

[edit] Change of era

• Tentoku gannen (天徳元年, Tentoku gannen^?); 957: The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Tenryaku 11, on the 27th day of the 10th month.^[2].

[edit] Events of the Tentoku era

• Tentoku 1, in the 4th month (957): The emperor celebrated the 50th birthday of Fujiwara Morosuke; and on this occasion Murakami himself offered Morosuke a cup of sake.^[3]
• Tentoku 2, in the 3rd month (958): Fujiwara Saneyori is honored with the privilege of traveling by cart.^[3]
• Tentoku 4, the 23th day of the 9th month (960): The Imperial palace burned down, the first time it had been ravaged by fire since the capital was removed from Nara to Heian-kyo in 794.^[4]

[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

Tentoku	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th
Gregorian	957	958	959	960	961

Preceded by: Tenryaku

Era or nengō: Tentoku

Succeeded by: Ōwa

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