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'' and before '' Kōji''. This period spanned from July 1532 through October 1555. The reigning emperor was .

Change of era

* 1532 : At the request of

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, the 12th ''

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'' of the ''

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'', the era name was changed because of various battles. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in ''Kyōroku'' 5, on the 29th day of the 7th month.

Events of the ''Tenbun'' era

* 1532 (''Tenbun 1, 24th day of the 8th month''): Yamashina Hongan-ji set on fire. Hokke Riot in

Kyōto Kyoto (; Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in Japan. Located in the Kansai region on the island of Honshu, Kyoto forms a part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kobe. , the ci ...

. * 1536 (''Tenbun 5, 26th day of the 2nd month''): Go-Nara is formally installed as emperor. * 1541 (''Tenbun 10, 14th day of the 6th month''): Takeda Harunobu (later

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) banishes his father, Takeda Nobutora. * 1542 (''Tenbun 11, 25th day of the 8th month''): Imagawa Yoshimoto, who was ''

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Suruga Province was an old province in the area that is today the central part of Shizuoka Prefecture. Suruga bordered on Izu, Kai, Sagami, Shinano, and Tōtōmi provinces; and was bordered by the Pacific Ocean through Suruga Bay to the south. Its abbrevia ...

, conquered

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; and from there, he entered

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where he battled the ''daimyō'' of

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Oda Nobuhide was a Japanese ''daimyō'' and magistrate of the Sengoku period known as "Tiger of Owari" and also the father of Oda Nobunaga the first "Great Unifier" of Japan. Nobuhide was a deputy ''shugo'' (Shugodai) of lower Owari Province and head of the ...

. The Imagawa forces were defeated by the Oda army. * 1543 (''Tenbun 12, 25th day of the 8th month''):

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ship drifts ashore at

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, and the

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is first introduced into Japan. * 1543 (''Tenbun 13, 7th month''): There was flooding in Heian-kyō and nearby areas. * 1546 (''Tenbun 15, 20th day of the 12th month''): Ashikaga YoshifushiTitsingh
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''. * 1547 (''Tenbun 16''): Joseon-Japanese "Treaty of Tenbun", trading limited to Joseon port of Pusan and

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commerce limited to 20 ships annually.Hall, John Whitney. (1997)
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) replaces his older brother Nagao Harukage as heir to

Echigo Province was an old province in north-central Japan, on the shores of the Sea of Japan. It bordered on Uzen, Iwashiro, Kōzuke, Shinano, and Etchū Provinces. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''Echigo''" in . It corresponds today to Niigata ...

, with triumphant entry in

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. * 1549 (''Tenbun 18, 24th day of the 2nd month''): Princess Nō marries

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. * 1549 (''Tenbun 18, 3rd day of the 7th month''):

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priest

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arrives in Japan at

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. * 1549 (''Tenbun 18, 27th day of the 11th month''): Matsudaira clan of

fall under

Imagawa Yoshimoto was a pre-eminent ''daimyō'' (feudal lord) in the Sengoku period Japan. Based in Suruga Province, he was known as . he was one of the three ''daimyōs'' that dominated the Tōkaidō region. He died in 1560 while marching to Kyoto to become ...

's rule. Matsudaira Takechiyo (later

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) departs for Imagawa as a hostage. * 1554 (''Tenbun 23, 2nd month''): Shogun Yoshihusi was changed to Yoshiteru.

Notes

References

* Hall, John Whitney. (1997). ''The Cambridge History of Japan: Early Modern Japan''. Cambridge:

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

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.
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* 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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