- Ten'ei
nihongo|Ten'ei|天永 was a nihongo|Japanese era name|年号,|"nengō",|lit. "
year name" after "Tennin" and before "Eikyū ." This period spanned the years from1110 through1113 . The reigning emperor was nihongo|Emperor Toba "-tennō"|鳥羽天皇. [Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). "Annales des empereurs du Japon," pp. 178-180; Brown, Delmer "et al." (1979). "Gukanshō," p. 321; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). "Jinnō Shōtōki," pp. 200-204.]Change of Era
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1110 : The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in "Tennin" 4, on the 16th day of the 7th month of 1110. [Brown, p. 321.]Events of the "Ten'ei" Era
* "Ten'ei 1", in the 5th month (
1109 ): Emperor Toba visitedHossho-ji where donated a manuscript a Buddhist manuscript which had been created using gold characters on blue paper. [Titsingh, p. 179.]
* "Ten'ei 1", in the 6th month (1110 ): The Midera-ji burned down. This was the second time the temple was destroyed by fire, the first time being in 1081. [Brown, p. 322.]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
* Titsingh, Isaac. (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 Society 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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