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Revision as of 02:53, 25 December 2012
Tenmei 7 (天明七年)
Timeline of 1787
- 1787/5 Rice riots break out in Osaka; city residents band together and attack the rice storehouses.
- 1787/5/20-24 Similar riots break out in Edo, and around the same time or shortly afterwards in thirty other cities.
- 1787/6/19 Matsudaira Sadanobu launches the Kansei Reforms.
Other Events of 1787
- The Buke shohatto are repromulgated.
- Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse, a Frenchman, runs aground on a reef near Yaeyama Island.
- Matsudaira Sadanobu is appointed head of the rôjû.
- Matsumura Goshun joins Maruyama Ôkyo's Shijô studio.
- The Hayashi clan school at the Yushida Seidô is officially renamed Shôheizaka gakumonjo, and brought under the direct control of the shogunate, to serve as a site for the education and training of shogunal and domainal officials.
- Tokugawa Ienari becomes shogun.
- A fire ravages the Yoshiwara.
Births and Deaths
- Yanagawa Shigenobu is born (d. 1832).
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