was a after ''
Genryaku'' and before ''
Kenkyū.'' This period spanned the years from August 1185 through April 1190. The reigning emperor was .
Change of era
* 1185 : 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 ''Genryaku'' 2, on the 16th day of the 4th month of 1184.
[Brown, p. 337.]
Events of the ''Bunji'' era
* 1185 (''Bunji 1, 29th day of the 11th month''): The court formally approves of the establishment of a
shogunate
, officially , was the title of the military rulers of Japan during most of the period spanning from 1185 to 1868. Nominally appointed by the Emperor, shoguns were usually the de facto rulers of the country, except during parts of the Kamak ...
government at
Kamakura
, officially , is a city of Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan. It is located in the Kanto region on the island of Honshu. The city has an estimated population of 172,929 (1 September 2020) and a population density of 4,359 people per km2 over the tota ...
in the
Kantō region
The is a geography, geographical region of Honshu, the largest island of Japan. In a common definition, the region includes the Greater Tokyo Area and encompasses seven prefectures of Japan, prefectures: Chiba Prefecture, Chiba, Gunma Prefe ...
.
[Kitagawa, p. 787.]
* 1186 (''Bunji 2, 4th month''):
Go-Shirakawa visits
Kenrei-mon In, mother of the late
Emperor Antoku and last Imperial survivor of the
Battle of Dan-no-ura, at her humble retreat in the nunnery of , near ,
Sakyō-ku, Kyoto
is one of the eleven Wards of Kyoto, wards in the Municipalities of Japan, city of Kyoto, Kyoto, Kyoto, in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. It is located in the northeastern part of the city.
History
The meaning of ''sakyō'' (左京) is "on the Em ...
.
Notes
References
* Brown, Delmer and Ichiro Ishida. (1979). ''The Future and the Past: a translation and study of the 'Gukanshō', an interpretative history of Japan written in 1219.'' Berkeley:
University of California Press
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.
OCLC 5145872* Kitagawa, Hiroshi and Bruce T. Tsuchida, eds. (1975). ''
The Tale of the Heike
is an epic account compiled prior to 1330 of the struggle between the Taira clan and Minamoto clan for control of Japan at the end of the 12th century in the Genpei War (1180–1185).
It has been translated into English at least five times. ...
.'' Tokyo:
University of Tokyo Press. ;