was a after '' Saikō'' and before '' Jōgan.'' This period spanned the years from February 857 through April 859. The reigning emperors were and .

Change of Era

* January 30, 857 : The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended, and the new one commenced in ''Saikō'' 4, on the 21st day of the 2nd month of 857.

Events of the ''Ten'an'' era

* September 27, 858 (''Ten'an 2, 27th day of the 8th month''): Emperor Montoku dies.Titsingh
p. 115.
/ref> Korehito''-shinnō'' receives the succession (''senso''). Shortly thereafter, Emperor Seiwa formally accedes to the throne (''sokui''). * September 27, 858 (''Ten'an 2, 27th day of the 8th month''): In the 8th year of Montoku''-tennō''s reign (文徳天皇8年), the emperor abdicated; and the succession (''senso'') was received by his son. Shortly thereafter, Emperor Seiwa is said to have acceded to the throne (''sokui''). * December 15, 858 (''Ten'an 2, 7th day of the 11th month''): The emperor's official announcement of his enthronement at age 9 was accompanied by the appointment or his grandfather as regent ('' sesshō''). This is the first time that this high honor has been accorded to a member of the Fujiwara family, and it is also the first example in Japan of the accession of an heir who is too young to be emperor. The proclamation of the beginning of Seiwa's reign was made at the

Ise Shrine The , located in Ise, Mie Prefecture of Japan, is a Shinto shrine dedicated to the solar goddess Amaterasu Ōmikami and the grain goddess Toyouke-hime (Toyouke Omikami). Also known simply as , Ise Shrine is a shrine complex composed of many Shi ...

(''Kotai-jingu'') at Ise and at all the tombs of the imperial family.Titsingh
p. 115
Brown, p. 286.

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 an academic publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University. It is a member of the Association of University Presses. Its director since 2017 is George Andreou. The pres ...

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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 New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's la ...

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OCLC 6042764

External links

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