1746

Enkyô 3 (延享三年)

Timeline of 1746

• Enkyô 2/int.12/15 (5 Feb) Jurisdiction over the merchant and artisan districts of Edo is shifted from the responsibility of the jisha bugyô (temples & shrines magistrate) to that of the machi bugyô (town magistrates).
• 1746/2/30 A big fire in Asakusa.(Edo)
• 1746/3/29 Bakufu orders to bust vicious usuries.
• 1746/8 Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami debuts at the Takemoto-za jôruri theatre in Osaka.
• 1746/7/2 Kaga disturbans
• 1746/9 Kabuki version of Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami debuts in Kyoto.
• 1746/12 Bakufu builds new astronomical observatory in Kanda-sakuma.(Edo)

Other Events of 1746

• The first Japanese edition of the "Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manual" first appears.

Births and Deaths

• Kanze Shigenori dies.
• Matsuoka Joan dies (b. 1668).

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