Tenpyō-hōji

Tenpyō-hōji (天平宝字) was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō,, lit. "year name") after Tenpyō-shōhō and before Tenpyō-jingo. This period spanned the years from August 757 through January 765.[1] The reigning Emperor was Junnin-tennō (淳仁天皇), who was a mere figurehead while authority was in the hands of Fujiwara no Nakamaro and during the later years of the era increasingly with retired Empress Kōken and the monk Dōkyō.

Change of era

Events of the Tenpyō-hōji era

Notes

  1. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Tenpyō-hōji" 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. Brown, p. 274.
  3. Brown, p. 274; Shoku Nihongi records the date as the 18th day of the 8th month of Tenpyō-shōhō 9.
  4. Appert, Georges et al. (1888). Ancien japon, pp. 29-30.
  5. Brown, pp. 276; Varley, p. 44, 145.

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Preceded by
Tenpyō-shōhō
Era or nengō
Tenpyō-hōji

757–765
Succeeded by
Tenpyō-jingo
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