was a after ''

Meiō , also known as Mei-ō, was a after ''Entoku'' and before ''Bunki''. This period spanned the years from through . Reigning emperors were and . Change of era * 1492 : The era name was changed to mark an event or a number of events. The old era ...

'' and before '' Eishō.'' This period spanned the years from February 1501 through February 1504. The reigning emperor was .

Change of era

* 1501 : The era name was changed to mark the anniversary of the enthronement of

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and the 58th year of the

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. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in 1501 (''Meiō'' 10, 29th day of the 2nd month).

Events of the ''Bunki'' era

* 1501 (''Bunki 1''): The former ''

shōgun , officially , was the title of the military dictators of Japan during most of the period spanning from 1185 to 1868. Nominally appointed by the Emperor, shoguns were usually the de facto rulers of the country, though during part of the Kamakur ...

'' Yoshimura was exiled; and he retired to

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, and he lived in exile in the home of the ''

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'' of that han. He changed his name to

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; and he summoned all the military forces of the western empire to come to his aid.

Hosokawa Masamoto was a deputy-''shōgun'' of the Hosokawa clan of Japan, and son of Hosokawa Katsumoto. Masamoto was appointed to this rank during 1486. For a brief period this title was lost by Hatakeyama Masanaga but was regained in time. When Ashikaga Yosh ...

was made master of all the provinces which encircled the

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.Titsingh
p. 364.
/ref> * 1502 (''Bunki 2, 7th month''): Minamoto no Yoshitaka was elevated to the 2nd tier of the 4th class ''

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'' officials, and he expressed thanks to the emperor for that honor. In the same month, the name of Ashikaga Yoshitaka was changed to that of

Yoshizumi Yoshizumi (written: 良純, 宜純, 佳純, 義澄 or 義処) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese shōgun *, Japanese weather forecaster, television personality and actor *, Japanese molecular biol ...

.Titsingh
p. 365.
/ref> * 1503 (''Bunki 3''): There was a great drought in the summer of this year.

Notes

References

* Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). ''Japan Encyclopedia''. Cambridge:

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.
OCLC 48943301
* Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). ''

Nihon Ōdai Ichiran , ', is a 17th-century chronicle of the serial reigns of Japanese emperors with brief notes about some of the noteworthy events or other happenings. According to the 1871 edition of the ''American Cyclopaedia'', the 1834 French translation of ...

''; ou
''Annales des empereurs du Japon''.
Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland
OCLC 5850691

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