Bunji (era)
Bunji (文治) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,, lit. "year name") after Genryaku and before Kenkyū. This period spanned the years from August 1185 through April 1190. The reigning emperor was Go-Toba-tennō (後鳥羽天皇).
Bunji (文治) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,, lit. "year name") after Genryaku and before Kenkyū.  This period spanned the years from August 1185 through April 1190. The reigning emperor was Go-Toba-tennō (後鳥羽天皇).

Change of era
1185 Bunji gannen (文治元年): The new era name was created to mark an event or a number of events.  The previous era ended and a new one commenced in Genryaku 2, on the 16th day of the 4th month of 1184.

Events of the Bunji era
1185 (Bunji 1, 29th day of the 11th month): The court formally approves of establishment of a shogunate government at Kamakura in the Kantō region.
1186 (Bunji 2, 4th month): Go-Shirakawa visits Kenrei-mon In, mother of the late Emperor Antoku and last Imperial survivor of the Battle of Dan-no-ura, at her humble retreat in the nunnery of Jakkō-in, near Ōhara, Sakyō-ku, Kyoto.

Notes
References
Brown, Delmer and Ichiro Ishida. (1979). The Future and the Past: a translation and study of the 'Gukanshō', an interpretative history of Japan written in 1219.  Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-03460-0; OCLC 5145872
Kitagawa, Hiroshi and Bruce T. Tsuchida, eds. (1975). The Tale of the Heike. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press.  	ISBN 9784130870245;  OCLC 193064639
Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128
Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Nihon Odai Ichiran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon.  Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC 5850691
Varley, H. Paul. (1980). A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa. New York: Columbia University Press.  ISBN 9780231049405; OCLC 6042764

External links
National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection