1643

Kan'ei 20 (寛永二十年)

Other Events of 1643

• Shogunate bans the planting of cash crops (rapeseed, tobacco, and mulberries for the cultivation of silkworms) on certain lands.
• Empress Meishô succeeded by Emperor Go-Kômyô.

Births and Deaths

• 1643/1/14 Ôtomo Chikamori dies (b. 1567)
• 1643/9/14 Kasuga no Tsubone, nurse to Iemitsu, dies (b. 1579).
• 1643/11/13 Tenkai, Buddhist priest and shogunal advisor, dies (b. 1536).
• 1643/11/25 Tachibana Muneshige, Sengoku general, dies.
• 1643/12/26 Maeda Tsunanori, daimyô of Kaga han, is born (d. 1724).
• Onkeibo Chochen, founder of Jikiden-ryû of kenjutsu, dies (b. 1563).
• Togo Shigekura, founder of Jigen-ryû of kenjutsu, dies (b. 1563).