天正 – Vocabulary details

天てん正しょう

Meanings

Noun

1. Tenshō era (1573.7.28-1592.12.8)

Kanji used

天

heaven

正

correct

Pitch accent

て

んしょう

Used in: 117

Composed of

天てん

sky; heaven; God; svarga (heaven-like realm visited as a stage of death and rebirth); deva (divine being of Buddhism); top (of a book); sole (of a Japanese sandal)

正しょう

exactly; precisely; (arch.) correct; (arch.) right; (arch.) greater (of equal court ranks); (arch.) upper

Used in vocabulary (3 in total)

天てん正しょう大おお判ばん

oval gold coin struck by Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 1588

天てん正しょうカルタ

Tensho karuta; the first domestically produced Japanese deck of cards, closely based on Latin-suited decks brought over by the Portuguese