1745

Enkyô 2 (延享二年)

Timeline of 1745

• 1745/9/25 Tokugawa Yoshimune steps down as shogun.
• 1745/11/2 Tokugawa Ieshige becomes Shogun.

Other Events of 1745

• The learning of foreign languages is legalized.
• The Kyôhô Reforms come to an end.
• The Kyûyô is compiled.
• The first yose, a type of neighborhood vaudeville theater, opens in Edo.

Births and Deaths

• Abe Masatomo, daimyô of Bingo Fukuyama han, is born (d. 1805).
• Isaac Titsingh is born (d. 1812).
• Bijinga painter Uragami Gyokudô is born (d. 1820).

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