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 Riot in Kyōto.
  • 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 daimyō of Suruga Province, conquered Tōtōmi Province; and from there, he entered Mikawa Province where he battled the daimyō of Owari 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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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 372–382.
  3. ^ Titsingh, p. 374.
  4. ^ Titsingh, p. 376.
  5. ^ Titsingh, p. 377.
  6. ^ a b Titsingh, p. 381; n.b., Ashikaga Yoshifushi changed his name to Yoshiteru in 1554 (Tenbun 23, 2nd month).]
  7. ^ Titsingh, p. 378.
  8. ^ 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
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Preceded by Era or nengō
Tenbun

1532–1555
Succeeded by