1682

Tenna 2 (天和二年)

Timeline of 1682

• 1682/2/22 Honda Toshinaga reassigned to Murayama han (Dewa province) from Yokosuka han.
• 1682/3/12 Bakufu awards a farmer Gorôemon in Suruga for hilial devotion.
• 1682/7/16 Bakufu bans people to use "Tenka Ichi"
• 1682/8/27 Korean envoy meet Shogun in Edo castle.
• 1682/10 Ihara Saikaku's Kôshoku ichidai otoko ("The Life of an Amorous Man") is first published in Osaka.
• 1682/12/28 A big fire burns down more than 50000 houses in Edo.(Oshichi fire)

Other Events of 1682

• The Chinese Board of Rites suggests that Ryukyuan investiture take place by proxy in Fuzhou, to spare China the effort of sending investiture envoys to Ryûkyû; Ryûkyû insists, however, and an embassy is dispatched to Ryûkyû, maintaining the traditional pattern of investiture.
• Kinoshita Jun'an is named official Confucian advisor to the shogunate.
• Korean embassy journeys to Edo.
• Ryukyuan embassy journeys to Edo.
• Takatsukasa Fusasuke resigns as kanpaku; Konoe Motohiro is next in line for the position, but is passed over in favor of Ichijô Fuyutsune.
• The Tsuboya pottery district is created as the Ryûkyû royal government orders kilns & potters moved to Tsuboya from various places across the island.
• Tsuruga han formed.

Births and Deaths

• Arai Masanari dies.
• Gu Yanwu dies (b. 1613).
• Ukiyo-e artist Miyagawa Chôshun is born.
• Sai On is born (d. 1761).
• Chinese artist Shen Nanpin (Shen Quan) is born (d. 1765).
• Illustrator Yamamoto Shunshô dies (b. 1610).
• Confucian scholar Yamazaki Ansai dies (b. 1618).
• Zhu Shunsui dies (b. 1600).

Previous Year 1681

1682

Following Year 1683