KnowraTenbunTenbunTenbun was a Japanese era name used from 1532 to 1555, spanning the reigns of Emperors Go-Nara and Ōgimachi.BriefConnectEisho: A Japanese era name used from 1504 to 1521. The era immediately preceding Tenbun in the Japanese calendar.Sengoku period: A period of civil war and political fragmentation in Japan, conventionally dated from the fifteenth to late sixteenth centuries. Tenbun falls within this era of competing regional powers.Japanese calendar: A system of dating used in Japan, including era names and, historically, lunisolar calendar rules. Tenbun dates are interpreted within Japan’s calendar system.Eiroku: A Japanese era name used from 1558 to 1570. It followed Tenbun after the intervening Kōji era.Kyōroku: A Japanese era name used from 1528 to 1532. The era directly before Tenbun, ending in 1532.Battle of Kawanakajima: A series of battles between the Takeda and Uesugi clans in Shinano during the sixteenth century. The first battle, in 1553, occurred near the end of Tenbun.Emperor of Japan: The hereditary monarch who serves as Japan’s head of state and symbol of the nation. Japanese era names are formally associated with imperial reigns.Kōji (Japanese era): A Japanese era name used from 1555 to 1558. It succeeded Tenbun, whose final year was 1555.Nengō: A Japanese system of era names that marks years by an emperor’s reign and official era changes. Tenbun belongs to this system of named calendar periods.Honnō-ji Incident: The 1582 coup in which Akechi Mitsuhide attacked Oda Nobunaga at Honnō-ji in Kyoto. It belongs to the political upheaval that followed the Tenbun era.Show all 20