was a after ''
Kōji'' and before ''
Kyūan.'' This period spanned the year from February 1144 through July 1145. The reigning emperor was .
[Titsingh, Isaac. (1834)]
''Annales des emepereurs du japon'', pp. 186
188; Brown, Delmer ''et al.'' (1979). ''Gukanshō'', pp. 324-326; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). ''Jinnō Shōtōki'', p. 205.
Change of Era
* February 6, 1144 : The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenced on March 27, 1144 (''Kōji 3, on the 22nd day of the 2nd month'').
[Brown, p. 325.]
Events of the ''Ten'yō'' Era
* 1144 (''Ten'yō 1, 7th month''): A new era name was created because a comet was sighted in the sky in the 7th month of '' Ten'yō gannen''.
[Titsingh]
p. 186.
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* 1145 (''Ten'yō 1, 8th month''): The empress Taiken-mon In, mother of former-Emperor Sutoku
was the 75th emperor of Japan,Imperial Household Agency (''Kunaichō'') 崇徳天皇 (75)/ref> according to the traditional order of succession.
Sutoku's reign spanned the years from 1123 through 1142.
Genealogy
Before his ascension to the Chr ...
died.
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 ...
.
OCLC 58053128
* Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). ''Nihon Odai Ichiran
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in t ...
''; 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 ...
.
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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