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Tenbun (天文), also known as Tenmon, was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō, "year name") after Kyōroku and before Kōji. This period spanned from July 1532 through October 1555.^[1] The reigning emperor was Go-Nara-tennō (後奈良天皇).^[2]

Change of era

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1532 Tenbun gannen (天文元年): At the request of Ashikaga Yoshiharu, the 12th shōgun of the Muromachi Bakufu, the era name was changed because of various battles. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in Kyōroku 5, on the 29th day of the 7th month.^{[citation needed]}

Events of the Tenbun era

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23 September 1532 (Tenbun 1, 24th day of the 8th month): Yamashina Hongan-ji set on fire. Hokke RiotinKyōto.
29 March 1535 (Tenbun 4, 26th day of the 2nd month): Go-Nara is formally installed as emperor.^[3]
7 July 1541 (Tenbun 10, 14th day of the 6th month): Takeda Harunobu (later Takeda Shingen) banishes his father, Takeda Nobutora.
4 September 1542 (Tenbun 11, 25th day of the 8th month): Imagawa Yoshimoto, who was daimyōofSuruga Province, conquered Tōtōmi Province; and from there, he entered Mikawa Province where he battled the daimyōofOwari Province, Oda Nobuhide. The Imagawa forces were defeated by the Oda army.^[4]
24 September 1543 (Tenbun 12, 25th day of the 8th month): Portuguese ship drifts ashore at Tanegashima, and the gun is first introduced into Japan.
July/August 1544 (Tenbun 13, 7th month): There was flooding in Heian-kyō and nearby areas.^[5]
11 January 1546 (Tenbun 15, 20th day of the 12th month): Ashikaga Yoshifushi^[6] becomes 13th Shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate.^[7]
1547 (Tenbun 16): Joseon-Japanese "Treaty of Tenbun", trading limited to Joseon port of Pusan and Sō clan commerce limited to 20 ships annually.^[8]
28 January 1548 (Tenbun 17, 30th day of the 12th month): Nagao Kagetora (later Uesugi Kenshin) replaces his older brother Nagao Harukage as heir to Echigo Province, with triumphant entry in Kasugayama Castle.
23 March 1549 (Tenbun 18, 24th day of the 2nd month): Princess Nō marries Oda Nobunaga.
27 July 1549 (Tenbun 18, 3rd day of the 7th month): Jesuit Catholic priest Francis Xavier arrives in Japan at Kagoshima
15 December 1549 (Tenbun 18, 27th day of the 11th month): Matsudaira clan of Mikawa Province fall under Imagawa Yoshimoto's rule. Matsudaira Takechiyo (later Tokugawa Ieyasu) departs for Imagawa as a hostage.
March/April 1554 (Tenbun 23, 2nd month): Shogun Yoshihusi was changed to Yoshiteru.^[6]

Notes

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^ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Tembun" in Japan encyclopedia, p. 956; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File Archived 2012-05-24 at archive.today.

^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 372–382.

^ Titsingh, p. 374.

^ Titsingh, p. 376.

^ Titsingh, p. 377.

^ ^a ^b Titsingh, p. 381; n.b., Ashikaga Yoshifushi changed his name to Yoshiteru in 1554 (Tenbun 23, 2nd month).]

^ Titsingh, p. 378.

^ Hall, John Whitney. (1997). The Cambridge History of Japan: Early Modern Japan, p. 249.

References

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Hall, John Whitney. (1997). The Cambridge History of Japan: Early Modern Japan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-22355-3; OCLC 174552485
Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 48943301
Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Nihon Ōdai Ichiran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC 5850691

External links

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National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" – historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection

Preceded by Kyōroku	Era or nengō Tenbun 1532–1555	Succeeded by Kōji

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