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Shôtoku 5 (正徳五年)

==Timeline of 1715==
*1715/11 [[Chikamatsu Monzaemon]]'s ''[[ningyo joruri|ningyô jôruri]]'' play "[[The Battles of Coxinga]]," debuts at the [[Takemoto-za]].

==Other Events of 1715==
*[[Arai Hakuseki|Arai Hakuseki's]] ''Seiyô kibun'' (西洋記聞) is published.
*[[Giuseppe Castiglione]] begins painting in China.
*[[Higa Josho|Higa Jôshô]] devises the ''[[tsuikin]]'' (堆錦) method of creating [[Ryukyuan lacquerware|lacquerware]].
*A market is opened in [[Shuri]].
*[[Tamagusuku Chokun|Tamagusuku Chôkun]] is named ''[[udui bujo|udui bujô]]''.
*The ''[[Shotoku shinrei|Shôtoku shinrei]]'' are promulgated, shifting the export of [[copper]], and altering policies governing [[Chinese in Nagasaki|Chinese trade at Nagasaki]].

===Births and Deaths===
*[[Ino Jakusui]] dies (b. [[1656]]).
*[[Kato Yasutsune|Katô Yasutsune]], [[daimyo|daimyô]] of [[Ozu han|Ôzu han]] (b. [[1657]]) dies.
*Painter [[So Shiseki|Sô Shiseki]] (d. [[1786]]) is born.
*[[Tominaga Nakamoto]] is born (d. [[1746]]).


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