Tempo

Beginning and end of an era: ^{[5] [6] [2]}

• 5th day of the 8th moon of the 6th year of Jinka (according to the Julian calendar - September 2, 729);
• The 14th day of the 4th moon of the 21st year of Tempo (according to the Julian calendar - May 4, 749).

The name Nengo was borrowed ^[5] :

• from the Book of Changes : 「聖人 感人 心 而 天下 和平」 ^[5] ;
• from Li Ji : 「国 治 而后 天下 平」 ^[5] .

• 737 (9th year of Tempo) - smallpox epidemic;
• 740 year (8th moon of the 12th year of Tempo) - at the court of Emperor Shomu in Nara, Kibi no Makibi and Gambo conspired to discredit dazai-senga (vice-governor of the Kyushu government ) Fujiwara no Hirotsugu ^[7] ;
• 740 year (9th moon of the 12th year of Tempo) - an uprising led by Fujiwara no Hirotsugu ( Japanese 広 広 嗣 の 乱 ) in response to the increased influence of Gambo ^[7] ;
• 740 year (9th moon of the 12th year of Tempo) - an army of 17,000 men under the command of Ono no Azumabito ( Japanese 大野 東 人 ) went to Kyushu to suppress the riot ^[7] ;
• 740 year (10th moon of the 12th year of Tempo) - decisive victory over the rebels; Fujiwara no Hirotsugu was beheaded in Hizen province ^[7] ;
• 740 - transfer of the capital to Kuni-kyo ^[8] .
• 741 year (13th year of Tempo) - on the initiative of the emperor, the construction of provincial kokubun-ji temples and provincial women's monasteries of kokubun-niji was started throughout the country ^[9] . “Kokubun-ji” was often referred to as “konkomyo shitenno gokoku no tera” (meaning “temples to protect the surroundings under the auspices of the four golden light deities”). Kokubun-niji were called “hoket metuzai-no tera” (which means “a monastery cleansing sins with the lotus sutra ”) ^[9] ;
• 743 year (15th year of Tempo) - the emperor issues a decree on the construction of a statue of the Big Buddha ( Daibutsu ); the statue will be placed at Todai-ji Monastery, Nara ^[10] ;
• 743 - the Law on perpetual ownership of cultivated land ( Jap. 墾 田永 代 私 財 法 ) was passed ;
• 744 year (16th year of Tempo) - the capital was moved to Naniva-kyo (in the territory of the modern city of Osaka ) ^[7] ;
• 745 year (17th year of Tempo) - the capital returned to Heijou-kyo ( Nara ), the construction of the great Buddha was completed ^[11] ;
• 749 (the 21st year of Tempo) - after the 25-year reign of the emperor, Shomu handed over the reins to his daughter, Takano-hime, the future empress Koken . After renouncing, Shomu became a Buddhist priest, the first of the Tenjo daijз . Empress Komyo also vowed to become a Buddhist nun. ^[12]

The table below shows the correspondence of Japanese traditional and European chronology. In parentheses to the year number of the Japanese era, the name of the corresponding year from the 60-year cycle of the Chinese Gan-chi system is indicated . The Japanese months are traditionally called moons .

^{* An} asterisk indicates short months (moons) of 29 days. The remaining months last 30 days.

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