Tenbun (天文, Tenbun?) or Temmun was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,?, lit. "year name") after Kyōroku and before Kōji. This period spanned the years from 1532 through 1555. The reigning emperor was Go-Nara-tennō (後奈良天皇, Go-Nara-tennō?).1
Change of era
- Tenbun gannen (天文元年, Tenbun gannen?); 1532: 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.
Events of the Tenbun era
- Tenbun 1, the 24th day of the 8th month (1532): Yamashina Honganji set on fire. Hokke Riot in Kyōto.
- Tenbun 5, on the 26th day of the 2nd month (1536}: Go-Nara is formally installed as emperor.2
- Tenbun 10, the 14th day of the 6th month (1541): Takeda Harunobu (later Takeda Shingen) banishes his father, Takeda Nobutora.
- Tenbun 11, the 25th day of the 8th month (1542): Imagawa Yoshimoto, who was daimyo of Suruga province, conquered Totomi province; and from there, he entered Mikawa province where he battled the daimyo of Owari province, Oda Nobuhide. The Imagawa forces were defeated by the Oda army.3
- Tenbun 12, the 25th day of the 8th month (1543): Portuguese ship drifts ashore at Tanegashima, and the gun is first introduced into Japan.4
- Tenbun 13, in the 7th month (1543): There was flooding in Heian-kyō and nearby areas.5
- Tenbun 15, the 20th day of the 12th month (1546): Ashikaga Yoshihusi6 becomes 13th Shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate.7
- Tenbun 17, the 30th day of the 12th month (1548): Nagao Kagetora (later Uesugi Kenshin) replaces his older brother Nagao Harukage as heir to Echigo Province, with triumphant entry in Kasugayama Castle.
- Tenbun 18, the 24th day of the 2nd month (1549): Princess Nō marries Oda Nobunaga.
- Tenbun 18, the 3rd day of the 7th month (1549): Jesuit Catholic priest Francis Xavier arrives in Japan at Kagoshima.
- Tenbun 18, the 27th day of the 11th month (1549): Matsudaira clan of Mikawa Province fall under Imagawa Yoshimoto's rule. Matsudaira Takechiyo (later Tokugawa Ieyasu) departs for Imagawa as a hostage.
- Tenbun 23, in the 2nd month (1554): Shogun Yoshihusi was changed to Yoshiteru.6
Births in the Tenbun era
- Tenbun 1 (1542): Luis Frois, Society of Jesus missionary [died Keichō 2 (1597)].
- Tenbun 3, the 12th day of the 5th month (June 23, 1544): Oda Nobunaga [died Tenshō 10 (1582)].
- Tenbun 4 (1545): Princess Nō, wife of Oda Nobunaga [died Keichō 10 (1605)].
- Tenbun 5, the 1st day of the 1st month (1536): Hideyoshi Toyotomi [died Keichō 3 (1598)].
- Tenbun 5, the 10th day of the 3rd month (March 31, 1546): Ashikaga Yoshiteru, 13th Shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate [died Eiroku 8 (1565)].
- Tenbun 6, the 3rd day of the 11th month (December 5, 1537): Ashikaga Yoshiaki, 15th Shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate [died Keichō 2 (1597)].
- Tenbun 7, the 25th day of the 12th month (1539): Maeda Toshiie, general [died Keichō 4 (1599)].
- Tenbun 7 (1538): Ashikaga Yoshihide, 14th Shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate [died Eiroku 11 (1568)
- Tenbun 9 (1540): Toyotomi Hidenagi's half-brother, general [died Tenshō 19 (1591)].
- Tenbun 11 (1542): Hattori Masanari (also known as Hattori Masashige or Hanzō), general [died Keichō 1 or Keichō Gannen (1596)].
- Tebun 11, the 26th day of the 12th month (January 30, 1543): Tokugawa Ieyasu, first Shogun of the Edo Bakufu [died Genna 2 (1616)].
- Tenbun 16 (1547): Oda Nagamasu, younger brother of Oda Nobunaga [died Genna 7 (1621)].
Deaths in the Tenbun era
References
- ^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 372-382.
- ^ Titsingh, p. 374.
- ^ Titsingh, p. 376.
- ^ [Note that some believe this may have actually happened in 1542.]
- ^ Titsingh, p. 377.
- ^ a b Titsingh, p. 381. [Note that Ashikaga Yoshihusi changed his name to Yoshiteru in the 2nd month of Tenbun 23 (1554).]
- ^ Titsingh, p. 378.
- ^ a b Titsingh, p. 379.
- 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. ... Click link for digitized, full-text copy of this book (in French)
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