Bunryaku

Bunryaku (文暦), also romanized as Bunreki, was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō, lit. "year name") after Tenpuku and before Katei. This period spanned the years from November 1234 to September 1235.^[1] The reigning emperor was Shijō-tennō (四条天皇).^[2]

Change of era

• 1234 Bunryaku gannen (文暦元年): The era name was changed to mark an event or a number of events. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in Tenpuku 2.

Events of the Bunryaku Era

• 1234 (Bunryaku 1, 12th month): Kujō Yoritsune is raised to the first rank of the third class in the court hierarchy (the dōjō kuge).^[3]

Notes

1. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Bunreki" in Japan encyclopedia, p. 92; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File.
2. Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon, pp. 242-243; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki. p. 227.
3. Titsingh, p. 243.

References

• Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128
• Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Nihon Odai Ichiran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC 5850691
• Varley, H. Paul. (1980). A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-04940-5; OCLC 6042764

External links

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

Preceded by Tenpuku

Era or nengō Bunryaku 1234–1235

Succeeded by Katei