was a after ''

Bun'an was a after ''Kakitsu'' and before '' Hotoku.'' This period spanned the years from February 1444 through July 1449. The reigning emperor was . Change of era * 1444 : The era name was changed to mark an event or a number of events. The previou ...

'' and before '' Kyotoku.'' This period spanned the years from July 1449 through July 1452. The reigning emperor was .

Change of era

* 1449 : The era name was changed to mark an event or a number of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in 1449 (''

6.'') The first year of Hotoku began on the 28th day of the 7th month. On the 10th day, the era name would still have been ''Bun'an'' 6.

Events of the ''Hōtoku'' era

* May 8, 1449 (''Hōtoku 1, 16th day of the 4th month''): Shōgun Yoshinari is honored by the emperor with the gift of a sword. * 1451 (''Hōtoku 3, 7th month ''): A delegation from the

Ryukyu Islands The , also known as the or the , are a chain of Japanese islands that stretch southwest from Kyushu to Taiwan: the Ōsumi, Tokara, Amami, Okinawa, and Sakishima Islands (further divided into the Miyako and Yaeyama Islands), with Yon ...

arrives for the first time in

Heian-kyō Heian-kyō was one of several former names for the city now known as Kyoto. It was the official capital of Japan for over one thousand years, from 794 to 1868 with an interruption in 1180. Emperor Kanmu established it as the capital in 794, mov ...

(

Kyoto Kyoto (; Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in Japan. Located in the Kansai region on the island of Honshu, Kyoto forms a part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kobe. , the c ...

).Titsingh, ; Satow, Ernest. (1882) "Notes on Loochoo" in , citing

Arai Hakuseki was a Confucianist, scholar-bureaucrat, academic, administrator, writer and politician in Japan during the middle of the Edo period, who advised the ''shōgun'' Tokugawa Ienobu. His personal name was Kinmi or Kimiyoshi (君美). Hakuseki (白 ...

Mention of this diplomatic event is among the first of its type to be published in the West in an 1832 French version of by

Hayashi Shihei was a Japanese military scholar and a retainer of the Sendai Domain. His name is sometimes transliterated (according to the Sino-Japanese reading) as ''Rin Shihei''. Biography Hayashi was born in Edo as the second son of Hayashi Gonhyoue Yos ...

. * 1451 (''Hōtoku 3, 8th month ''): Sogun Yoshihori causes a letter to be sent to the Emperor of China. Appreciation for the waka poetry of Shōtetsu and Shinkei was noteworthy during this era.Ramirez-Christensen, Esperanza U. (1994).

Notes

References

* Hayashi, Shihei. (1786). . Edo: Manuscript
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* Klaproth, Julius. (1832). ''San kokf tsou ran to sets, ou Aperçu général des trois royaumes.'' Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland
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* Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). ''Japan Encyclopedia.'' Cambridge:

Harvard University Press Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing. It is a member of the Association of American University Presses. After the retir ...

.
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* Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). ''

Nihon Odai Ichiran Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

''; ou
''Annales des empereurs du Japon.''
Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland
OCLC 5850691

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, "The Japanese Calendar
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