- Bunji (Japanese era)
xnihongo|Bunji|文治 was a nihongo|Japanese era name|年号,|"nengō",|lit. "
year name" after "Genryaku " and before "Kenkyū ." This period spanned the years from1185 through1190 . The reigning emperor was nihongo|Go-Toba"-tennō"|後鳥羽天皇. [Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). "Annales des empereurs du Japon," pp. 207-221; Brown, Delmer "et al." (1979). "Gukanshō," pp. 334-339; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). "Jinnō Shōtōki." pp. 215-220.]Change of era
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1185 : The new era name was created to mark an event or a number of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in "Genryaku" 2, on the 16th day of the 4th month of 1184. [Brown, p. 337.]Events of the "Bunji" era
* "Bunji 1", 29th day of the 11th month (
1185 ): The court formally approves of establishment of a shogonate government at Kamakura in theKantō region .Kitagawa, p. 787.]
* "Bunji 2", 4th month (1186 ):Go-Shirakawa visitsKenrei-mon In at her humble retreat inOhara . [see above] ]References
* Brown, Delmer and Ichiro Ishida, eds. (1979). [
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 . ISBN 0-520-03460-0
* Kitagawa, Hiroshi and Bruce T. Tsuchida, eds. (1975). "The Tale of the Heike ." Tokyo:University of Tokyo Press . ISBN 0-86008-128-1
* Titsingh, Isaac, ed. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō , 1652] , "Nipon o daï itsi ran ; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon, tr. par M. Isaac Titsingh avec l'aide de plusieurs interprètes attachés au comptoir hollandais de Nangasaki; ouvrage re., complété et cor. sur l'original japonais-chinois, accompagné de notes et précédé d'un Aperçu d'histoire mythologique du Japon, par M. J. Klaproth." Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. [http://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&dq=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran ... Click link for digitized, full-text copy of this book (in French)]
* Varley, H. Paul , ed. (1980). [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 . ISBN 0-231-04940-4External links
* National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" [http://www.ndl.go.jp/koyomi/e/ -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection]
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