was a after ''
Bunka'' and before ''
Tenpō''. This period spanned the years from April 1818 through December 1830. The reigning emperor was .
Change of era
* April 22, 1818 (): The new era name was created to mark the enthronement of the emperor Emperor Ninko in ''Bunka'' 15.
The new era name was drawn from an aphorism attributed to the ancient Chinese emperor, Great
Shun
Shun may refer to one of the following:
*To shun, which means avoiding association with an individual or group
* Shun (given name), a masculine Japanese given name
*Seasonality in Japanese cuisine (''shun'', 旬)
Emperor Shun
* Emperor Shun ( ...
(大舜): "Shun reads the Heavens, and so brings together all seven governments" (舜察天文、斉七政).
Events of the ''Bunsei'' era
* 1822 (''Bunsei 5''): Edo was struck with 150 earthquake tremors over three days.
[Hammer, Joshua. (2006)]
''Yokohama Burning: The Deadly 1923 Earthquake and Fire that Helped Forge the Path to World War II'', p. 63.
/ref>
* August 11, 1823 (''Bunsei 6, 6th day of the 7th month''): German flora- and fauna-taxonomist Philipp Franz von Siebold arrives at Dejima as new physician for the Dutch trading post in Nagasaki harbor. '' Bakufu'' policy in this era was designed to marginalize the influence of foreigners in ''Bunsei'' Japan; however, an unintended and opposite consequence of ''sakoku
was the Isolationism, isolationist Foreign policy of Japan, foreign policy of the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate under which, for a period of 265 years during the Edo period (from 1603 to 1868), relations and trade between Japan and other countri ...
'' was to enhance the value and significance of a very small number of thoughtful observers like von Siebold, whose writings document what he learned or discovered first-hand. Von Siebold's published accounts and unpublished writings provided a unique and useful perspective for Orientalists and Japanologists in the 19th century; and his work continues to be rigorously examined by modern researchers today.
* August 13, 1830 (''Bunsei 13, 25th day of the 6th month''): Earthquake at Kyoto (Latitude: 35.000/Longitude: 136.000), no Richter Scale magnitude suggested by available data."Significant Earthquake Database"
U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
Notes
References
* Hammer, Joshua. (2006). ''Yokohama Burning: The Deadly 1923 Earthquake and Fire that Helped Forge the Path to World War II.'' New York:
Simon & Schuster.
OCLC 67774380* Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). ''Japan Encyclopedia.'' Cambridge:
Harvard University Press.
OCLC 48943301*
Screech, Timon. (2006)
''Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779–1822.''London:
RoutledgeCurzon
Routledge () is a British multinational publisher. It was founded in 1836 by George Routledge, and specialises in providing academic books, journals and online resources in the fields of the humanities, behavioural science, education, law, and ...
.
OCLC 65177072
See also
* ''
An'ei'' –
Carl Peter Thunberg
Carl Peter Thunberg, also known as Karl Peter von Thunberg, Carl Pehr Thunberg, or Carl Per Thunberg (11 November 1743 – 8 August 1828), was a Swedish naturalist and an "apostle" of Carl Linnaeus. After studying under Linnaeus at Uppsala Un ...
,
Isaac Titsingh
* ''
Genroku'' –
Engelbert Kaempfer
External links
* National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar
– historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bunsei
Japanese eras
1810s in Japan
1820s in Japan
1830s in Japan