1645

Shôhô 2 (正保二年)

Timeline of 1645

• 1645/4/23 - Tokugawa Ietsuna celebrates his genpuku.

Other Events of 1645

• Bankoku sôzu, the first world map produced in Japan, is published.
• Miyamoto Musashi completes the Gorin no sho (Book of the Five Rings).
• Qing Imperial Court mandates Chinese and Chinese subjects to wear their hair in a queue (a long braid), in the Manchu style. Ryukyuans are excused from this mandate.
• Tenshu of Matsuyama castle (Iyo) is completed.
• Ban on onna-kabuki is reissued.
• Korean Court stops using the Chinese imperial era names in correspondence with Japan, citing dates only by the sexegenary cycle.
• Manchu forces sack Yangzhou in a violent ten-day massacre.

Births and Deaths

• 1645/12/2 Hosokawa Tadaoki dies (b. 1564).
• Honda Narishige dies (b. 1571).
• Maeda Mitsumasa, son of Maeda Toshitsune, dies (b. 1613).
• Miyamoto Musashi dies.
• Onodera Yoshimichi dies (b. 1566).
• Takuan Sôhô dies (b. 1573).
• Torii Kiyomoto, founder of the Torii school of ukiyo-e, is born (d. 1702).
• Uesugi Sadakatsu, son of Uesugi Kagekatsu, dies (b. 1603).

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