*Obama prefecture is absorbed into [[Shiga prefecture]].
*Obama prefecture is absorbed into [[Shiga prefecture]].
*Japan declares its borders to extend out to include the [[Ogasawara Islands]].
*Japan declares its borders to extend out to include the [[Ogasawara Islands]].
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*The railroad link between [[Kobe]] and [[Osaka]] is extended to [[Kyoto]].
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*[[Samurai]] are required to convert their stipends into twenty-year bonds. Combined with the Haitô edict, this represents the final step in the abolition of the samurai class, and of its hereditary privileges.
*[[Shimabara castle]] is torn down.
*[[Shimabara castle]] is torn down.
*[[Shuri castle]] is made the site of the barracks of the [[Kumamoto Garrison]].
*[[Shuri castle]] is made the site of the barracks of the [[Kumamoto Garrison]].
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*The first woodblock print to depict the Emperor's person in a not entirely imaginary manner is published.
===Births and Deaths===
===Births and Deaths===
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*[[Imamura Hyakuhachirô]] is killed.
*[[Imamura Hyakuhachirô]] is killed.
*Masuda Shizukata is killed.
*Masuda Shizukata is killed.
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*''[[Shin hanga]]'' artist [[Yoshida Hiroshi]] is born (d. 1950).