Tenji period

Tenji (Japanese: 天智) was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō, lit. year name) after the Saimei era and before the Kōbun era. This period spanned the years from 662 through 672. The reigning emperor was Tenji-tennō (天智天皇).

Change of Era

• Tenji 1 (天智元年; 662): The new era name was created to mark the beginning of the reign of Emperor Tenji. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Saimei 8.

Events of the Tenji Era

• Tenji 1 (662):
• Tenji 6 (667): Six years after the death of Empress Saimei, her mausaoleun was reconstructed. Naka no Ōe-shinnō had not yet been proclaimed as Emperor Tenji, which meant that he had not yet begun to create an offical court around himself. In this year, he did at last establish his court at Ōtsu-no-Miya in the Omi province, where his enthronement was belatedly scheduled for the springtime of the following year.
• Tenji 7 (668): Emperor Tenji is formally enthroned.

References

Further reading

• Brown, Delmer and Ichiro Ishida, eds. (1979). 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 (林鵞峰), (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.--Two digitized examples of this rare book have now been made available online: (1) from the library of the University of Michigan, digitized January 30, 2007; and (2) from the library of Stanford University, digitized June 23, 2006. Click here to read the original text in French.
• Varley, H. Paul , ed. (1980). [Kitabatake Chitafusa, 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 0-231-04940-4

External links

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

Tenji	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th
Gregorian	662	663	664	665	666	667	668	669	670	671	672

Preceded by: Saimei

Era or nengō: Tenji

Succeeded by: Kōbun