This article is about the Japanese era name. For the town that formerly existed in Kumamoto Prefecture, see Tenmei, Kumamoto.
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Tenmei (天明) is a Japanese era name (年号, nengō, literally "years name") for the years between the An'ei Era and before the Kansei Era, from April 1781 through January 1789.[1] The reigning emperor was Kōkaku Tennō' (光格天皇).[2]
^Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Temmei" Japan Encyclopedia, p. 956, p. 956, at Google Books; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File Archived 2012-05-24 at archive.today.
^Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 420–421.
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