was a after ''

Bunki was a after '' Meiō'' 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 o ...

'' and before ''

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''. The period spanned the years from February 1504 through August 1521. The reigning emperor was .

Change of era

* 1504 : The era name was changed to mark the beginning of a new cycle of the

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. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in ''Bunki'' 4, on the 30th day of the 2nd month.

Events of the ''Eishō'' era

* 1504 (''Eishō 1''): A great famine. * 1505 (''Eishō 2''):

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built. * 1508 (''Eishō 5, 1st month''): A new revolt in Miyako and the assassination of Hosokawa Masamoto encouraged former-Shōgun

Ashikaga Yoshitane , also known as , was the 10th ''shōgun'' of the Ashikaga shogunate who headed the shogunate first from 1490 to 1493 and then again from 1508 to 1521 during the Muromachi period of Japan. Yoshitane was the son of Ashikaga Yoshimi and grandson ...

in believing that this would be a good opportunity to re-take

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. He assembled his troops and marched at their head towards the capital; and by the 6th month of ''Eishō'' 5, he was once more in command of the streets of Miyako. Starting in 1508, Yoshitane is known as the

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's 10th shōgun.Titsingh
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/ref> * September 21, 1510 (''Eishō 7, 18th day of the 8th month''): Earthquake at Seionaikai (Latitude: 34.600/Longitude 135.400), 6.7 magnitude on the Surface wave magnitude scale ().

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(NOAA)
National Geophysical Data Center
(NGDC)
NOAA/Japan: Significant Earthquake Database
/ref> * October 10, 1510 (''Eishō 7, 8th day of the 9th month''): Earthquake in the Enshunada Sea (Latitude: 34.500/Longitude: 137.600), 7.0 . *1511 (''Eishō 8, 2nd month''): When Yoshida Kanetomo died at the age of 77, his passing was considered a significant event in the chronicles of the Imperial

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.Titsingh, ; aka Ourabe no Kane tomo * September 16, 1511 (''Eishō 8, 24th day of the 8th month''):

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. Former ''

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returns from Tanba, fearing that

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is planning to attack Heian-kyō. Then, with the assistance of

Ōuchi Yoshioki became a ''sengoku daimyō'' of Suō Province and served as the 15th head of the Ōuchi clan. Yoshioki was born early in the Sengoku period, the son of Ōuchi Masahiro, ''shugo'' of Suō Province and the 14th head of the Ōuchi clan. The fir ...

, Yoshitane entered

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.Titsingh
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/ref> * 1512 (''Eishō 9''): Tamanawa Castle built. * 1513 (''Eishō 10, 5th month''): Shōgun Ashikaga Yoshiki changes his name to Yoshitane, by which he is better known to historians.

References

Bibliography

* 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

External links

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, "The Japanese Calendar
– historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection
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