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Bunka (文化,culture) was aJapanese era name (年号,nengō;lit. 'year name') afterKyōwa and beforeBunsei. The period spanned the years from January 1804 to April 1818.^[1] The reigning emperors wereKōkaku-tennō (光格天皇) andNinkō-Tennō (仁孝天皇).

• February 11, 1804 (Bunka gannen (文化元年)): The new era name ofBunka ( meaning "Culture" or "Civilization") was created to mark the start of a new 60-year cycle of theHeavenly Stem andEarthly Branch system of theChinese calendar which was on New Year's Day, thenew moon day of 2 November 1804. The previous era ended and a new one commenced inKyōwa 4.

• 1804 (Bunka 1):Daigaku-no-kamiHayashi Jussai (1768–1841) explained the shogunate foreign policy to Emperor Kōkaku in Kyoto.^[2]
• June 1805 (Bunka 2): Genpaku Sugita (1733–1817) is granted an audience with Shōgun Ienari to explain differences between traditional medical knowledge and Western medical knowledge.^[3]
• September 25, 1810 (Bunka 7, 27th day of the 8th month): Earthquake in northern Honshū (Latitude: 39.900/Longitude: 139.900), 6.6 magnitude on theSurface wave magnitude scale.^[4]...Click link for NOAA/Japan: Significant Earthquake Database
• December 7, 1812 (Bunka 9, 4th day of the 11th month): Earthquake in Honshū (Latitude: 35.400/Longitude: 139.600), 6.6 magnitude.^[4]
• 1817 (Bunka 14): Emperor Kōkaku travelled in procession to Sento Imperial Palace, a palace of an abdicated emperor. The Sento Palace at that time was called Sakura Machi Palace. It had been built by the Tokugawa Shogunate for former-Emperor Go-Mizunoo.^[5]

• Cullen, Louis M. (2003).A History of Japan, 1582–1941: Internal and External Worlds. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press.ISBN 9780521821551;ISBN 9780521529181;OCLC 50694793
• Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005).Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge:Harvard University Press.ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5;OCLC 48943301
• Sugita Genpaku. (1930).Dawn of Western Science in Japan (蘭學事始,Rangaku kotohajime). Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten.OCLC 9424185

• National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar"-- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection
• National Archives of Japan:Sakuramachiden Gyokozu, scroll depicting Emperor Kōkaku in formal procession, 1817 (Bunka 14).

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