page_title: Genbun
section_title: Events of the Genbun era
hierarchical_section_title: Genbun / Events of the Genbun era
caption_attribution_description: English: Genbun_Inari_Koban_Kin.
context_page_description: Genbun was a Japanese era name, also Gembun, after Kyōhō and before Kanpō. This period started in April 1736 and ended in February 1741. During this time, the emperor was Sakuramachi-tennō.
context_section_description: 1736 (Genbun 1): The shogunate published an edict declaring that henceforth, the sole, authorized coinage in the empire would be those copper coins which were marked on the obverse with the character 文 (pronounced bun in Japanese or pronounced wen in Chinese.  This is to say, the same character which is found in this era name of Genbun).
  1737 (Genbun 2, 11th month): A comet was seen in the western part of the sky.
  10 May 1737 (Genbun 2, 11th day of the 4th month): Former-Emperor Nakamikado died.
  1739 (Genbun 4):  Iron coins were minted.
  1739 (Genbun 4): Hosokawa Etchū-no-kami of Higo was killed in Edo castle by Itakura Katsukane. The murderer was ordered to kill himself.
  8 August 1740 (Genbun 5, 16th day of the 7th month): Floodings in Heian-kyō (Kyoto).  Sanjo Bridge (Sanjo-bashi) is washed away.
caption: Gold coin minted during the Genbun era
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