Tentoku

<h2 id="change-of-era">Change of era</h2>
<ul><li>February 3, 957 <i>Tentoku gannen</i> (天徳元年): The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The previous era ended and the new one commenced in <i>Tenryaku</i> 11, on the 27th day of the 10th month.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a></li></ul>
<h2 id="events-of-the-tentokuera">Events of the <i>Tentoku</i> era</h2>
<ul><li>957 (<i>Tentoku 1, 4th month</i>): The emperor celebrated the 50th birthday of Fujiwara Morosuke; and on this occasion Murakami himself offered Morosuke a cup of <a href="/facts/Sake/JAnXrMTz">sake</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a></li>
<li>958 (<i>Tentoku 2, 3rd month</i>): Fujiwara Saneyori is honored with the privilege of traveling by cart.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a>/</li>
<li>October 16, 960 (<i>Tentoku 4, 23rd day of the 9th month</i>): The Imperial palace burned down, the first time it had been  ravaged by fire since the capital was removed from <a href="/facts/Nara%2c_Nara/q3IEe0ke">Nara</a> to <a href="/facts/Heian-ky%25C5%258D/sC06RqE8">Heian-kyō</a> in 794.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a></li></ul>
<h2 id="notes">Notes</h2>

<ul><li>Brown, Delmer M. and Ichirō Ishida, eds. (1979). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=w4f5FrmIJKIC&q=Gukansho"><i>Gukanshō: The Future and the Past</i>.</a> Berkeley: University of California Press. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-520-03460-0; <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/251325323">OCLC 251325323</a></li>
<li>Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC"><i>Japan encyclopedia</i>.</a> Cambridge: <a href="/facts/Harvard_University_Press/YluAnq74">Harvard University Press</a>. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-674-01753-5; <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58053128?referer=di&ht=edition">OCLC 58053128</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Isaac_Titsingh/Uc4xEeAw">Titsingh, Isaac.</a> (1834). <i><a href="/facts/Nihon_%25C5%258Cdai_Ichiran/XjJDmjmC">Nihon Ōdai Ichiran</a></i>; ou, <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&q=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran"><i>Annales des empereurs du Japon</i>.</a>  Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5850691">OCLC 5850691</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/H._Paul_Varley/AVUf0pTI">Varley, H. Paul</a>. (1980). <i>A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa</i>. New York: <a href="/facts/Columbia_University_Press/5dVrKLey">Columbia University Press</a>. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 9780231049405; <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6042764">OCLC 6042764</a></li></ul>
<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/National_Diet_Library/YEp5J8n8">National Diet Library</a>, "The Japanese Calendar" <a href="https://www.ndl.go.jp/koyomi/e/">-- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Tenryaku" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 961, p. 961, at Google Books; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File Archived 2012-05-24 at archive.today. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC&pg=PA961" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC&pg=PA961</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Nussbaum, "Ōwa" at p. 767., p. 767, at Google Books. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC&pg=PA767" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC&pg=PA767</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales ds empereurs du japon, pp. 139–142; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 295–298; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki, pp. 183–190. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&dq=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran&pg=PP9" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&dq=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran&pg=PP9</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>Brown, p. 297. <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>Titsingh, p. 140. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&dq=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran&pg=PP9" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&dq=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran&pg=PP9</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:6"><p>Titsingh, p. 140. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&dq=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran&pg=PP9" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&dq=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran&pg=PP9</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:7"><p>Titsingh, p. 141; Brown, p. 297. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&dq=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran&pg=PP9" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&dq=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran&pg=PP9</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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