Bunkyū (文久?) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,?, lit. "year name") after Man'en and before Genji. This period spanned the years from February 1861 through February 1864.[1] The reigning emperor was Kōmei-tennō (孝明天皇?).
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- 1861 (Bunkyu 1): Ukai Gyokusen established the first commercial photography studio (Eishin-dō) in Edo.[2]
- 1861 (Bunkyu 1): Great comet of 1861.[3]
- January 1862 (Bunkyū 1, 12th month): The Bonin Islands (Ogasawara Islands) were confirmed as part of Japan.[4]
- April 22, 1863 (Bunkyū 3, 5th day of the 3rd month): Shogun Iemochi traveled in a great procession to the capital. He had been summoned by the emperor, and he had 3,000 retainers as escort.[7]
- April 28, 1863 (Bunkyū 3, 11th day of the 3rd month): Emperor Komei made an Imperial progress to the Kamo Shrines. He was accompanied by the shogun and many feudal lords.[8]
- August 15-17, 1863 (Bunkyū 3, 2nd-4th of the 7th month ): British Bombardment of Kagoshima[9] in retaliation for the death of Charles Lennox Richardson.[6]
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- ↑ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Bunkyū" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 91.
- ↑ Hannavy, John. (2007). Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-century Photography, p. 770.
- ↑ Goodsell Observatory, Carleton College. (1938). Popular Astronomy, Vol. 46, p. 142, citing Bunkiu Shinyu Suiseki
- ↑ Tanaka, Hiroyuki. "The Ogasawara Islands in Tokugawa Japan." Kaiji Shi Kenkyū (Journal of the Maritime History). No. 50, June, 1993, Tokyo: The Japan Society of the History of Maritime.
- ↑ Jansen, Marius. (2000). The Making of Modern Japan, p. 296.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Nussbaum, "Namamugi Jiken" at p. 694.
- ↑ Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1956). Kyoto: The Old Capital of Japan, 794-1869, p. 325; this was the first time that a shogun had visited Heian-kyō since the visit of Tokugawa Iemitsu was in the city in Kan'ei 11 (1634)
- ↑ Ponsonby-Fane, p. 325; this was the first Imperial progress since Emperor Go-Mizunoo visited Nijo Castle more than 230 years before; and no Emperor had visited Kamo since Emperor Go-Daigo honored both shrines in Kemmu 1 (1334).
- ↑ Nussbaum, "Satuei Sensō" at p. 829.
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