was a after ''

Tenryaku was a after ''Tengyō'' and before '' Tentoku.'' This period spanned the years from April 947 through October 957. The reigning emperor was . Change of era * January 25, 947 : The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. T ...

'' and before ''

Ōwa was a after ''Tentoku'' and before ''Kōhō.'' This period spanned the years from February 961 through July 964. The reigning emperor was . Change of era * January 20, 961 : The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. T ...

.'' This period spanned the years from October 957 through February 961. The reigning emperors was .

Change of era

* February 3, 957 : The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in ''Tenryaku'' 11, on the 27th day of the 10th month.

Events of the ''Tentoku'' era

* 957 (''Tentoku 1, 4th month''): The emperor celebrated the 50th birthday of Fujiwara Morosuke; and on this occasion Murakami himself offered Morosuke a cup of sake.Titsingh
p. 140.
/ref> * 958 (''Tentoku 2, 3rd month''): Fujiwara Saneyori is honored with the privilege of traveling by cart./ * October 16, 960 (''Tentoku 4, 23rd day of the 9th month''): The Imperial palace burned down, the first time it had been ravaged by fire since the capital was removed from

Nara The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an " independent federal agency of the United States government within the executive branch", charged with the preservation and documentation of government and historical records. It i ...

Heian-kyō Heian-kyō was one of several former names for the city now known as Kyoto. It was the official capital of Japan for over one thousand years, from 794 to 1868 with an interruption in 1180. Emperor Kanmu established it as the capital in 794, mov ...

in 794.Titsingh
p. 141
Brown, p. 297.

Notes

References

* Brown, Delmer M. and Ichirō Ishida, eds. (1979)
''Gukanshō: The Future and the Past''.
Berkeley: University of California Press.
OCLC 251325323
* 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 retirem ...

.
OCLC 58053128
* 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
* Varley, H. Paul. (1980). ''A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa''. New York:

Columbia University Press Columbia University Press is a university press based in New York City, and affiliated with Columbia University. It is currently directed by Jennifer Crewe (2014–present) and publishes titles in the humanities and sciences, including the fiel ...

.
OCLC 6042764

External links

National Diet Library The is the national library of Japan and among the largest libraries in the world. It was established in 1948 for the purpose of assisting members of the in researching matters of public policy. The library is similar in purpose and scope to ...

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