Tenpyō

Tenpyō (天平), also romanized as Tempyō, was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō,, lit. "year name") after Jinki and before Tenpyō-kanpō. This period spanned the years from August 729 through April 749.[1] The reigning emperor was Shōmu-tennō (聖武天皇).[2]

Change of era

Events of the Tenpyō era

Ground-plan of Heijō-kyō (Nara)

Notes

  1. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Tempyō" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 957, p. 957, at Google Books; 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. 67-73, p. 67, at Google Books; Brown, Delmer et al. (1979). Gukanshō, pp. 272-273; Varley, H. Paul. Jinnō Shōtōki, pp. 141-143.
  3. Brown, p. 273.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Titsingh, p. 71, p. 71, at Google Books.
  5. Titsingh, p. 71, p. 71, at Google Books; 恭仁宮跡の発掘調査 (Excavations on the Kuni Palace site, Kyoto Prefectural Board of Education); retrieved 2011-07-14
  6. 1 2 Varley, pp. 141-142.
  7. Varley, p. 141; Brown, p. 273.
  8. Titsingh, p. 72, p. 72, at Google Books.
  9. Varley, p. 143.

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Preceded by
Jinki
Era or nengō
Tenpyō

729–749
Succeeded by
Tenpyō-kanpō
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