Tengen (era)

Tengen(天元) was a Japanese era(年号, nengō; "year name") after Jōgen and before Eikan. This period spanned the years from November 978 through April 983. The reigning emperor was En'yū-tennō(円融天皇).

Change of era

• February 20, 978 Tengen gannen(天元元年): The new era name was created to mark an event or a number of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in Jōgen 3, on the 15th day of the 4th month of 978.

Events of the Tengen era

• 978 (Tengen 1, 8th month): The emperor allowed the daughter of Fujiwara no Kaneie to be introduced into his household; and shortly thereafter, they had a son.
• 978 (Tengen 1, 10th month): Fujiwara no Yoritada was elevated to the position of Daijō-daijin; Minamoto no Masanobu was made Sadaijin; and, Fujiwara no Kaneie was made Udaijin.

Notes

• Brown, Delmer M. and Ichirō Ishida, eds. (1979). Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN978-0-520-03460-0;
• Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN978-0-674-01753-5;
• Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Nihon Ōdai Ichiran; ou, Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.
• Varley, H. Paul. (1980). A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN9780231049405;

External links

• National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar"