was a after ''
Manji'' and before ''
Enpō
(contemporarily written as 延寳) is the after ''Kanbun'' and before '' Tenna.'' This period spanned the years from September 1673 to September 1681. The reigning emperor was .
Change of era
* 1673 : The new era of ''Enpō'' (meaning "Prolon ...
.'' This period spanned the years from April 1661 to September 1673. The reigning emperors were and .
Change of era
* 1661 : The new era name of ''Kanbun'' (meaning "Generous Art") was created to mark a number of disasters, including a great fire at the Imperial Palace. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in ''Manji'' 4.
Events of the ''Kanbun'' era
* March 20, 1662 (''Kanbun 2, 1st day of the 2nd month''): There was a violent earthquake 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, mo ...
which destroyed the tomb of
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
, otherwise known as and , was a Japanese samurai and ''daimyō'' (feudal lord) of the late Sengoku period, Sengoku and Azuchi-Momoyama periods and regarded as the second "Great Unifier" of Japan.Richard Holmes, The World Atlas of Warfare: ...
.
[Titsingh]
p. 413.
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* 1662 (''Kanbun 2''): Emperor Gosai ordered Tosa Hiromichi (土佐広通, 1599–1670), a Tosa-school disciple, to adopt the name Sumiyoshi (probably in reference to a 13th-century painter, Sumiyoshi Keinin 住吉慶忍), upon assuming a position as official painter for the Sumiyoshi Taisha 住吉大社.
* March 5, 1663 (''Kanbun 3, 26th day of the 1st month''): Go-sai abdicated in favor of his younger brother, Satohito, aged 10; and then he lived in complete retirement until his death.
* June 6, 1663 (''Kanbun 3, 1st day of the 5th month''): An earthquake
An earthquakealso called a quake, tremor, or tembloris the shaking of the Earth's surface resulting from a sudden release of energy in the lithosphere that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes can range in intensity, from those so weak they ...
struck in Ōmi Province
was a Provinces of Japan, province of Japan, which today comprises Shiga Prefecture. It was one of the provinces that made up the Tōsandō Circuit (subnational entity), circuit. Its nickname is . Under the ''Engishiki'' classification system, ...
.Shakushain's Revolt
The was an Ainu rebellion against Japanese authority on Hokkaidō between 1669 and 1672 in the Edo period. It was led by Ainu chieftain Shakushain against the Matsumae clan, who represented Japanese trading and governmental interests in the ...
(1669–1672), breaks out in Hokkaido
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against the Matsumae clan
The was a Japanese aristocratic family who were daimyo of Matsumae Domain, in present-day Matsumae, Hokkaidō, from the Azuchi–Momoyama period until the Meiji Restoration. They were given the domain as a march fief in 1590 by Toyotomi ...
* 1670 (''Kanbun 10''): The Bonin Islands
The Bonin Islands, also known as the , is a list of islands of Japan, Japanese archipelago of over 30 subtropical and Island#Tropical islands, tropical islands located around SSE of Tokyo and northwest of Guam. The group as a whole has a total ...
(''Ogasawara'' Islands) are discovered by the Japanese when a ship bound for Edo from Kyūshū is blown off course by a storm.[Tanaka, Hiroyuki. (1993). "The Ogasawara Islands in Tokugawa Japan", ''Kaiji Shi Kenkyuu (Journal of the Maritime History)''.]
Notes
References
* Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). ''Japan Encyclopedia''. Cambridge: Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press (HUP) is an academic publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University. It is a member of the Association of University Presses. Its director since 2017 is George Andreou.
The pres ...
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OCLC 48943301
* Ponsonby-Fane, Richard Arthur Brabazon. (1959)
''The Imperial House of Japan''.
Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society
OCLC 194887
* Screech, Timon. (2006)
''Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779–1822''.
London: RoutledgeCurzon
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.
OCLC 65177072
* Tanaka, Hiroyuki. (1993). "The Ogasawara Islands in Tokugawa Japan", ''Kaiji Shi Kenkyuu (Journal of the Maritime History)''. No. 50, June, 1993, Tokyo: The Japan Society of the History of Maritim
* Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). ''Nihon Ōdai Ichiran
, ', is a 17th-century chronicle of the serial reigns of Japanese emperors with brief notes about some of the noteworthy events or other happenings.
According to the 1871 edition of the ''American Cyclopaedia'', the 1834 French translation of ...
''; ou
''Annales des empereurs du Japon''.
Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland
OCLC 5850691
External links
* National Diet Library
The is the national library of Japan and among the largest libraries in the world. It was established in 1948 for the purpose of assisting members of the in researching matters of public policy. The library is similar in purpose and scope to ...
, "The Japanese Calendar
-- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection
* Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbi
--link to period painting in museum collection
* Asia Society, New Yor
-- link to porcelain figurines illustrating ''Kanbun'' era fashion
http://www.askasia.org/teachers/images/image.php?no=716 ...seated porcelain figurine]
*British Museum, Londo
--link to further artist information
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