was a after ''
Manji'' and before ''
Enpō
(contemporarily written as 延寳) is the after '' Kanbun'' and before ''Tenna
was a after ''Enpō'' and before '' Jōkyō.'' This period spanned the years from September 1681 through February 1684. The reigning emperor was .
Change of er ...
.'' This period spanned the years from April 1661 to September 1673. The reigning emperors were and .
Change of era
* 1661 : The new era name of ''Kanbun'' (meaning "Generous Art") was created to mark a number of disasters including a great fire at the Imperial Palace. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in ''Manji'' 4.
Events of the ''Kanbun'' era
* March 20, 1662 (''Kanbun 2, 1st day of the 2nd month''): There was a violent earthquake in
Heian-kyō which destroyed the tomb of
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
, otherwise known as and , was a Japanese samurai and ''daimyō'' (feudal lord) of the late Sengoku period regarded as the second "Great Unifier" of Japan.Richard Holmes, The World Atlas of Warfare: Military Innovations that Changed the Cour ...
.
[Titsingh]
p. 413.
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* 1662 (''Kanbun 2''): Emperor Gosai ordered Tosa Hiromichi (土佐広通, 1599–1670), a Tosa-school disciple, to adopt the name Sumiyoshi (probably in reference to a 13th-century painter, Sumiyoshi Keinin 住吉慶忍), upon assuming a position as official painter for the Sumiyoshi Taisha 住吉大社.
* March 5, 1663 (''Kanbun 3, 26th day of the 1st month''): Go-sai abdicated in favor of his younger brother, Satohito, aged 10; and then he lived in complete retirement until his death.
* June 6, 1663 (''Kanbun 3, 1st day of the 5th month''): An earthquake struck in Ōmi Province
was a province of Japan, which today comprises Shiga Prefecture. It was one of the provinces that made up the Tōsandō circuit. Its nickname is . Under the '' Engishiki'' classification system, Ōmi was ranked as one of the 13 "great countr ...
.Hokkaido
is Japan's second largest island and comprises the largest and northernmost prefecture, making up its own region. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaidō from Honshu; the two islands are connected by the undersea railway Seikan Tunnel.
The lar ...
against the Matsumae clan
The was a Japanese clan that was confirmed in the possession of the area around Matsumae, Hokkaidō as a march fief in 1590 by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and charged with defending it, and by extension the whole of Japan, from the Ainu "barbarians" ...
* 1670 (''Kanbun 10''): The Bonin Islands
The Bonin Islands, also known as the , are an archipelago of over 30 subtropical and tropical islands, some directly south of Tokyo, Japan and northwest of Guam. The name "Bonin Islands" comes from the Japanese word ''bunin'' (an archaic read ...
(''Ogasawara'' Islands) are discovered by the Japanese when a ship bound for Edo from Kyūshū is blown off course by a storm.[Tanaka, Hiroyuki. (1993). "The Ogasawara Islands in Tokugawa Japan", ''Kaiji Shi Kenkyuu (Journal of the Maritime History)''.]
Notes
References
* Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). ''Japan Encyclopedia''. Cambridge: Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing. It is a member of the Association of American University Presses. After the retir ...
.
OCLC 48943301
* Ponsonby-Fane, Richard Arthur Brabazon. (1959)
''The Imperial House of Japan''.
Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society
OCLC 194887
* Screech, Timon. (2006)
''Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779–1822''.
London: RoutledgeCurzon.
OCLC 65177072
* Tanaka, Hiroyuki. (1993). "The Ogasawara Islands in Tokugawa Japan", ''Kaiji Shi Kenkyuu (Journal of the Maritime History)''. No. 50, June, 1993, Tokyo: The Japan Society of the History of Maritim
* Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). '' Nihon Ōdai Ichiran''; ou
''Annales des empereurs du Japon''.
Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland
OCLC 5850691
External links
* National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar
-- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection
* Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbi
--link to period painting in museum collection
* Asia Society, New Yor
-- link to porcelain figurines illustrating ''Kanbun'' era fashion
http://www.askasia.org/teachers/images/image.php?no=716 ...seated porcelain figurine]
*British Museum, Londo
--link to further artist information
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