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Tengi

天喜

Term · calendar

Japanese era name (天喜) for the years 1053–1058: 1053 is Tengi 1 (元年) and Tengi 6 is 1058. Tengi (天喜) is a Japanese era name (nengō), proclaimed in 1053. Its years are counted in lunar years from the new year before the proclamation: 1053 is Tengi 1 (元年), 1058 its last year, Tengi 6. A Japanese source dates a year within it as “Tengi 2” (天喜2年) rather than by a continuous count. Before: Eishō. After: Kōhei.