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Bunsei (文政) was a

Change of era

• April 22, 1818 (Bunsei gannen (文政元年)): The new era name was created to mark the enthronement of the emperor Emperor Ninko in Bunka 15.

The new era name was drawn from an aphorism attributed to the ancient Chinese emperor, Great Shun (大舜): "Shun reads the Heavens, and so brings together all seven governments" (舜察天文、斉七政).

Events of the Bunsei era

• 1822 (Bunsei 5): Edo was struck with 150 earthquake tremors over three days.^[2]
• August 11, 1823 (Bunsei 6, 6th day of the 7th month): German flora- and fauna-taxonomist
  Japanologists in the 19th century; and his work continues to be rigorously examined by modern researchers today.^[3]
• August 13, 1830 (Bunsei 13, 25th day of the 6th month): Earthquake at Kyoto (Latitude: 35.000/Longitude: 136.000), no
  Richter Scale magnitude suggested by available data.^[4]

References

• Hammer, Joshua. (2006). Yokohama Burning: The Deadly 1923 Earthquake and Fire that Helped Forge the Path to World War II. New York:
  ISBN 9780743264655; OCLC 67774380
• Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge:
  ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 48943301
• ISBN 978-0-203-09985-8; OCLC 65177072

• An'ei – Carl Peter Thunberg, Isaac Titsingh
• Genroku – Engelbert Kaempfer

External links

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