Difference between revisions of "1708"

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Hôei 5 (宝永五年)

1708/1/3 Mt. Fuji, which began erupting on 1707/11/23, becomes dormant again. It has not erupted since.
1708/9 Sakata Tôjûrô I appears onstage for the final time, in a production of Yûgiri Nagori no Shôgatsu.
1708/12/3 Shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi issues his "Kindness to Animals Decrees." All animals are to be kindly treated; if horses get tired while being ridden, they are to be stabled and taken care of by whatever mansions are nearby; and, post-horses are not to be overtaxed, and are to be well taken care of in both shogunal and domain lands.

Arai Hakuseki meets with and interviews the Jesuit missionary Giovanni Battista Sidotti.
Asano Yoshinaga succeeds Asano Tsunanaga as daimyô of Hiroshima han.
Construction, begun in 1695, is completed on the Taku Seibyô in Taku, Saga han. It is today the oldest extant Confucian temple in Japan.
Tei Junsoku compiles the Six Courses in Morals (六諭衍義) and brings it back from China.

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1707

1708

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1709

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 *1708/1/3 [[Mt. Fuji]], which began erupting on [[1707]]/11/23, becomes dormant again. It has not erupted since.
 *1708/9 [[Sakata Tojuro I|Sakata Tôjûrô I]] appears onstage for the final time, in a production of ''Yûgiri Nagori no Shôgatsu''.
+*1708/12/3 Shogun [[Tokugawa Tsunayoshi]] issues his "[[Kindness to Animals Decrees]]." All animals are to be kindly treated; if [[horses]] get tired while being ridden, they are to be stabled and taken care of by whatever mansions are nearby; and, [[post-horses]] are not to be overtaxed, and are to be well taken care of in both [[tenryo|shogunal]] and [[han|domain lands]].
 ==Other Events of 1708==