Tenju

Tenju (天授) was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō, lit. year name) of the Southern Court during the Era of Northern and Southern Courts after Bunchū and before Kōwa. This period spanned the years from May 1375 to February 1381.[1] The Southern Court emperor in Yoshino during this time-frame was Emperor Chōkei (長慶天皇 Chōkei-tennō). The Northern court emperor in Kyoto was Emperor Go-En'yū (後円融天皇 Go-En'yū-tennō).[2]

Nanboku-chō overview

The Imperial seats during the Nanboku-chō period were in relatively close proximity, but geographically distinct. They were conventionally identified as:

During the Meiji period, an Imperial decree dated March 3, 1911 established that the legitimate reigning monarchs of this period were the direct descendants of Emperor Go-Daigo through Emperor Go-Murakami, whose Southern Court (南朝 nanchō) had been established in exile in Yoshino, near Nara.[3]

Until the end of the Edo period, the militarily superior pretender-Emperors supported by the Ashikaga shogunate had been mistakenly incorporated in Imperial chronologies despite the undisputed fact that the Imperial Regalia were not in their possession.[3]

This illegitimate Northern Court (北朝 hokuchō) had been established in Kyoto by Ashikaga Takauji.[3]

Change of era

In this time frame, Eiwa (1375–1379) and Kōryaku (1379–1381) were the Southern Court equivalent nengō.

Events of the Tenju Era

Notes

  1. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Tenju" in Japan encyclopedia, p. 959; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File.
  2. Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 312-316.
  3. 1 2 3 Thomas, Julia Adeney. (2001). Reconfiguring modernity: concepts of nature in Japanese political ideology, p. 199 n57, citing Mehl, Margaret. (1997). History and the State in Nineteenth-Century Japan. p. 140-147.
  4. 1 2 Titsingh, p. 312.
  5. Titsingh, p. 313; Kang, Jae-eun et al. (2006). The Land of Scholars : Two Thousand Years of Korean Confucianism, p. 159.
  6. Titsingh, p. 313.
  7. 1 2 3 Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982) Lessons from History: The "Tokushi Yoron", p. 329.
  8. Titsingh, p. 315.

References

Preceded by
Bunchū
Era or nengō
Tenju

1375–1381
Succeeded by
Kōwa
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