1821

Bunsei 4 (文政四年)

Other Events of 1821

• The Dutch East India Company (VOC) imports a pair of camels into Japan and parades them from Nagasaki up to Edo.
• Shogunal territory in Ezo is returned to Matsumae han, and assimilation policies towards the Ainu are reversed - Ainu are now encouraged to be less Japanese; this in response to the lessening threat from Russia.
• Inô Tadataka's Dai nihon enkai yochi zenzu, a series of 225 maps resulting from his own thorough surveys of the archipelago, is completed and submitted to the shogunate.

Births and Deaths

• 1821/9/26 Arashi Rikan I dies.
• Geographer Honda Toshiaki dies (b. 1744).
• The Taewongun is born (d. 1898).
• Yamagata Bantô dies (b. 1748).

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