was a after '' Daiji'' and before '' Chōshō.'' This period spanned the years from 1131 through 1132. The reigning emperor was .

Change of Era

* January 31, 1131 : The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in ''Daiji'' 6, on the 29th day of the 1st month of 1131.

Events of the ''Tenshō'' Era

* 1131 (''Tenshō 1, 12th month''): The '' udaijin'' Fujiwara Yetada was elevated to '' sadaijin''; and the '' naidaijin'' Arihito filled that vacancy by becoming ''udaijin''. The ''

dainagon was a counselor of the first rank in the Imperial court of Japan. The role dates from the 7th century. This advisory position remained a part of the Imperial court from the 8th century until the Meiji period in the 19th century.Nussbaum, "Dainag ...

'' Fujiwara no Munetada was made ''nadaijin.''Titsingh
p. 183.
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Notes

References

* Brown, Delmer and Ichiro Ishida, eds. (1979). Jien, c. 1220">Jien.html" ;"title="Jien">Jien, c. 1220 ''Gukanshō">Jien">Jien<_a>,_c._1220.html" ;"title="Jien.html" ;"title="Jien">Jien, c. 1220">Jien.html" ;"title="Jien">Jien, c. 1220 ''Gukanshō; "The Future and the Past: a translation and study of the 'Gukanshō,' an interpretive history of Japan written in 1219" translated from the Japanese and edited by Delmer M. Brown & Ichirō Ishida.'' Berkeley: University of California Press. * Isaac Titsingh, Titsingh, Isaac, ed. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō, 1652], ''Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou
Annales des empereurs du Japon.
' Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. * Varley, H. Paul, ed. (1980). Kitabatake Chikafusa, 1359">Kitabatake_Chikafusa.html" ;"title="Kitabatake Chikafusa">Kitabatake Chikafusa, 1359 ''Jinnō Shōtōki ("A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa" translated by H. Paul Varley).'' New York: Columbia University Press.

External links

* National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar
-- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection
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