Tengi
{{Short description|Period of Japanese history (1053–1058 CE)}}
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{{nihongo|Tengi|天喜}} was a {{nihongo|Japanese era|年号|nengō|lit. "year name"}} after Eishō and before Kōhei, spanning the years from January 1053 through August 1058.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Tengi" in {{Google books|p2QnPijAEmEC|Japan Encyclopedia, p. 958|page=958}}; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see [http://dispatch.opac.ddb.de/DB=4.1/PPN?PPN=128842709 Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120524174828/http://dispatch.opac.ddb.de/DB=4.1/PPN?PPN=128842709 |date=2012-05-24 }}. The reigning emperor was {{nihongo|Go-Reizei-tennō|後冷泉天皇}}.Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 162-166; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 311-314; ; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki. p. 197-198.
Change of Era
- 1053 {{nihongo|Tengi 1|天喜元年}}: The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Eishō 7, on the 11th day of the 1st month of 1053.Brown, p. 313.
Events of the ''Tengi'' Era
- 1056 (Tengi 4, 7th-8th months): A broom star was observed in the east at daybreak.Pankenier, David et al. (2008). {{Google books|XmgEWgvKmh4C|Archaeoastronomy in East Asia: Historical Observational Records of Comets and Meteor Showers from China, Japan, and Korea, p. 122.|page=122}}
- 1057 (Tengi 5, 9th month): Abe no Yoritoki is killed in battle by a stray arrow.Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982). Lessons from History: the Tokushi Yoron, p. 120.
Notes
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References
- Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982) Lessons from History: The Tokushi Yoron. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press. {{ISBN|978-0-702-21485-1}}; [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/7574544 OCLC 7574544]
- Brown, Delmer M. and Ichirō Ishida, eds. (1979). [https://books.google.com/books?id=w4f5FrmIJKIC&q=Gukansho Gukanshō: The Future and the Past.] Berkeley: University of California Press. {{ISBN|978-0-520-03460-0}}; [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/251325323 OCLC 251325323]
- Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). [https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC Japan encyclopedia.] Cambridge: Harvard University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-674-01753-5}}; [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58053128?referer=di&ht=edition OCLC 58053128]
- Pankenier, David W., Zhentao Xu and Yaotiao Jiang. (2008). Archaeoastronomy in East Asia: Historical Observational Records of Comets and Meteor Showers from China, Japan, and Korea. Amherst, New York: Cambria Press. {{ISBN|9781604975871}} {{ISBN|1604975873}}; [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269455845 OCLC 269455845]
- Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Nihon Odai Ichiran; ou, [https://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&q=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran Annales des empereurs du Japon.] Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5850691 OCLC 5850691]
- Varley, H. Paul. (1980). A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa. New York: Columbia University Press. {{ISBN|9780231049405}}; [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6042764 OCLC 6042764]
External 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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