Bunshō

Bunshō (文正, Bunshō^?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,^?, lit. "year name") after Kanshō and before Ōnin. The period spanned the years 1466 through 1467. The reigning emperor during this period was Go-Tsuchimikado-tennō (後土御門天皇, Go-Tsuchimikado-tennō^?).^[1]

Change of era

• Bunshō gannen (文正元年, Bunshō gannen^?); 1466: The era name was changed to mark an event or a number of events. The old era ended and a new one commenced in Kanshō 7.

Events of the Bunshō era

• Bunshō 1, in the 1st month (1466): Dainagon Ashikaga Yoshimi, brother of the Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa, was promoted to the second rank of the second class in the Imperial court hierarchy.^[2]
  • Bunshō 1, in the 1st month (1466): Minamoto-no Mitsihisa was replaced as udaijin by dainagon Fuijwara no Matsatsugu.^[2]

    References

    1. ^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, pp. 352-364.
    2. ^ ^{a b} Titsingh, p. 353.

    
    

    
    

    • Titsingh, Isaac, ed. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō, 1652], Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon, tr. par M. Isaac Titsingh avec l'aide de plusieurs interprètes attachés au comptoir hollandais de Nangasaki; ouvrage re., complété et cor. sur l'original japonais-chinois, accompagné de notes et précédé d'un Aperçu d'histoire mythologique du Japon, par M. J. Klaproth. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.... Click link for digitized, full-text copy of this book (in French)

    External links

    • National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection

    
    

    Bunshō	1st	2nd
    Gregorian	1466	1467

    Preceded by: Kanshō

    Era or nengō: Bunshō

    Succeeded by: Ōnin

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