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...[[Koshoku ichidai otoko|Kôshoku ichidai otoko]]'' ("The Life of an Amorous Man") is first published in Osaka. *[[Gu Yanwu]] dies (b. [[1613]]).

...shi'' 数え年), is different from that used in the West, called "full-year" (''man-nenrei'' 満年齢). In the latter system common throughout the world today ...ar of birth (B) by A = Y-B+1 and the year of birth from the current age by B=Y-A+1. To determine the full-year age from the year-count age, subtract 1

...1259]], when he abdicated, sent himself into exile, and was succeeded by a man named [[Eiso]]. Though Gihon had a son, Prince [[Urasoe Taruyoshi]] (b. 1249), it was Eiso and not this prince who succeeded him.

Man'en 2 (万延二年) / Bunkyû 1 (文久元年) *1860/12/5 (January 15, 1861) [[Henry Heusken]] is killed (b. [[1832]]).

...rives in Mexico, having traveled directly there from [[Macao]]. A Japanese man on board may be the first Japanese to ever set foot in the Americas. * Kyushu daimyô [[Otomo Sorin|Ôtomo Sôrin]] dies. (b. [[1530]])

*[[Nagai Nagayoshi]] becomes the first man to synthesize methamphetamine. *1893/6/6 [[Terajima Munenori]], shogunal vassal and Meiji politician, dies (b. 1832).

...n]] for the [[Namamugi Incident]] of the previous year, in which a British man was killed by Satsuma samurai, as well as demanding that those guilty be pu * [[Aizawa Seishisai]] dies (b. [[1782]]).

...n to meet with Taiwanese aboriginal leaders, and receives a promise from a man called Tôkitoku in Japanese sources that ships flying the US flag will not * [[Emperor Komei|Emperor Kômei]] dies (b. [[1831]]).

...nglish-language newspaper ''Japan Commercial News'', the cartoon depicts a man with his decapitated head in his hands, and is meant to refer to the self-d *[[Hong Xiuquan]] dies (b. [[1814]]).

...tropical botanical garden on Gogayama in [[Nakijin]]. He became known as a man of culture and refinement in many fields of interest and as a calligrapher ...[[Sho Sen|Shô Sen]] (尚詮, 1926-1990), whose wife [[Sho Hiroko|Shô Hiroko]] (b. 1932) is perhaps the most prominent member of the Shô family alive today.

Ansei 7 (安政七年) / Man'en 1 (万延元年) *1860/3/3 [[Sakuradamongai Incident]] - [[Ii Naosuke]] is killed (b. [[1815]]).

...chard H. Pratt in 1892 in the phrase "Kill the Indian in him, and save the man" (speaking of Native Americans), this logic of "welfare" towards indigenous ...drew Gray, "The Indigenous Movement in Asia," in R.H. Barnes, A. Gray, and B. Kingsbury (eds.), ''Indigenous Peoples of Asia'', Association for Asian St

...eir sounds, in order to represent native Japanese words (see ''[[manyogana|man'yôgana]]''); these later evolved into ''hiragana'' and ''katakana'' - two ...se words (''yamato kotoba''). This was the beginning of what is known as ''man'yôgana''. One of the simplest examples of this can be seen in the characte

...Tignor, [[Benjamin Elman]], et al, ''Worlds Together, Worlds Apart'', vol B, Fourth Edition, W.W. Norton & Co (2014), 430.</ref> and married a daughter .... This was intended to protect the Imperial government from having any one man gain too much power; however, the elimination of these positions placed a g

...atsudaira Hideyasu]] (b. [[1574]]), and the newborn [[Tokugawa Hidetada]] (b. 1579/4), as well as two daughters (by concubines), [[Matsudaira Tokuhime|T ...f the defending army. Hideyori, who had probably never wanted a war with a man he had grown up considering an uncle in the first place, agreed and ordered

...n [[Batavia]] (today, Jakarta), Fort Zeelandia (on [[Taiwan]]), and on the man-made island of [[Dejima]] in [[Nagasaki]] Harbor. Following the imposition ...Tignor, [[Benjamin Elman]], et al, ''Worlds Together, Worlds Apart'', vol B, Fourth Edition, W.W. Norton & Co (2014), 495.</ref> Nevertheless, though o