Tenpyō-hōji (天平宝字?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,?, lit. "year name") after Tenpyō-shōhō and before Tenpyō-jingo. This period spanned the years from 757 through 765. The reigning empress was Kōken-tennō (孝謙天皇?).[1]
Change of era
- 757 Tenpyō-hōji gannen (天平宝字元年?)): The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in Tenpyō-shōhō 9, on the 2nd day of the 8th month.[2]
Events of the Tenpyō-hōji era
- 757 (Tenpyō-hōji 1'): The new era begins on the 2nd day of the 8th month of Tenpyō-shōhō 9.[3]
- 760 (Tenpyō-hōji 4): Additional coins were put into circulation – each copper coin bearing the words Mannen Ten-hō, each silver coin bearing the words Teihei Genhō, and each gold coin bearing the words Kaiki Shōhō.[4]
- January 26, 765 (Tenpyō-hōji 9, 1st day of the 1st month): In the 6th year of Junnin-tennō 's reign (淳仁天皇6年), the emperor was deposed by his adoptive mother; and the succession (‘‘senso’’) was received by former-Empress Kōken. Shortly thereafter, Empress Shōtoku is said to have acceded to the throne (‘‘sokui’’).[5]
Notes
- ^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, pp. 73-78; ; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, p. 275; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki. p. 143-144.
- ^ Brown, p. 274.
- ^ Brown, p. 274. [Shoku Nihongi records the date as the 18th day of the 8th month of Tenpyō-shōhō 9.]
- ^ Appert, Georges et al. (1888). Ancien japon, pp. 29-30.
- ^ Brown, pp. 276; Varley, p. 44, 145.
References
- Appert, Georges and Hiroshi Kinoshita. (1888). Ancien japon. Tokyo: Kokubunsha.
- Brown, Delmer M. and Ichirō Ishida, eds. (1979). [ Jien, 1221], Gukanshō (The Future and the Past, a translation and study of the Gukanshō, an interpretative history of Japan written in 1219). Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-03460-0
- Titsingh, Isaac, ed. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō, 1652], Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.
- Varley, H. Paul, ed. (1980). [ Kitabatake Chikafusa, 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
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