Editing Module:Tenpyō-kanpō (section)

==Change of era==
* '''749''' {{nihongo|''Tenpyō-kanpō gannen''|天平感宝元年}}: The new era name ''Tenpyō-kanpō'' is not found in some chronologies because its duration was so limited—a period of four months during the last year of Shōmu's reign. The previous era ended and this new one commenced in ''Tenpyō'' 21, on the 14th day of the 4th month of 749.<ref name="b274">Brown, p. 274.</ref> At some point shortly thereafter, the emperor determined to abdicate. Shōmu became the first emperor who renounced his throne to take the [[tonsure]] as a Buddhist monk. His wife, Empress Kōmyō, followed her husband's example by entering holy orders as well.<ref>Varley, Paul. (1980). ''Jinnō Shōtōki'', p. 143.</ref> Shōmu's reign and this era ended simultaneously. Also at this same time, the former-Emperor Shōmu began a new phase of his life and Shōmu's daughter began her reign.