Bunroku

Change of era

• ; 1592: The era name was changed to mark the enthronement of the new emperor Go-Yōzei. The previous era ended and a new one commenced in Tenshō 20.

Events of the Bunroku era

• Bunroku 1 (1592): Toyotomi Hideyoshi invades Korea (Bunroku no Eki).
• Bunroku 1 (1592): Ogasawara Sadayori claims to have discovered the Bonin Islands; and the territory was granted to him as a fief by Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
• Bunroku 2 (1593): Toyotomi Hideyori is born to Hideyoshi's mistress Yodo-Dono -- an infant son and possible heir.
• Bunroku 4 (1595): Toyotomi Hidetsugu loses his position and power.

References

• Cholmondeley, Lionel Berners. (1915). "The History of the Bonin Islands from the Year 1827 to the Year 1876. London: Constable & Co. Ltd. ...Click link to digitized, full-text copy of this monograph
• Sansom, George. (1961). A History of Japan, 1334-1615. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-0524-0 (cloth); ISBN 0-8047-0525-9 (paper)
• Titsingh, Isaac, ed. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō, 1652], Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon, tr. par M. Isaac Titsingh avec l'aide de plusieurs interprètes attachés au comptoir hollandais de Nangasaki; ouvrage re., complété et cor. sur l'original japonais-chinois, accompagné de notes et précédé d'un Aperçu d'histoire mythologique du Japon, par M. J. Klaproth. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. ... Click link for digitized, full-text copy of this book (in French)

External links

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