1689

Genroku 2 (元禄二年)

Other Events of 1689

• Construction and establishment of Chinese quarter in Nagasaki is formally completed.
• The keizuza system of recording and tracking the geneologies of the aristocracy is established in Ryûkyû.
• Matsuo Bashô makes a journey to the northern parts of Japan, upon which his Oku no Hosomichi ("The Narrow Road to the North") will later be based.
• The Treaty of Nerchinsk establishes the border between Russia and Qing Dynasty China.
• William and Mary are crowned King and Queen of England.

Births and Deaths

• Ichikawa Danjûrô II is born (d. 1758).
• Song Siyol dies (b. 1607).

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