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===Births and Deaths of 1842=== | ===Births and Deaths of 1842=== | ||
| + | * Tenpô 12/12/24 Ryukyuan aristocrat [[Rin Seiko|Rin Seikô]] is born (d. [[1880]]). | ||
* [[Abiru Eisaburo]] is born. | * [[Abiru Eisaburo]] is born. | ||
* [[Ryutei Tanehiko|Ryûtei Tanehiko]] commits suicide. | * [[Ryutei Tanehiko|Ryûtei Tanehiko]] commits suicide. | ||
Revision as of 02:39, 27 October 2010
Tenpô 13 (天保十三年)
Timeline of 1842
- 1842/6 Depictions in ukiyo-e of geisha, courtesans, kabuki actors, and the like are banned.
Other Events of 1842
- Ichikawa Ebizô V is banished from Edo as a punishment for his extravagant lifestyle. He moves to Osaka.
- Publication, begun in 1829, of Nise Murasaki Inaka Genji by Ryûtei Tanehiko, with illustrations by Utagawa Kunisada, is cut off by the authorities.
- Ryukyuan embassy journeys to Edo.
- Treaty of Nanjing ends the First Opium War.
- The shogunate issues an edict instructing local authorities to provide food and fuel for foreign ships and to encourage them to leave as soon as possible, a considerable softening of policy from earlier edicts which demanded the all-out repulsion of foreign vessels.
- The shogunate institutes the Tenpô Reforms.
- Over 4,000 illegal prostitutes of Edo are arrested and moved to the Yoshiwara.
- Kabuki theatres are required to move to Saruwaka-chô. No major kabuki theatre would operate outside of that district for thirty years.
Births and Deaths of 1842
- Tenpô 12/12/24 Ryukyuan aristocrat Rin Seikô is born (d. 1880).
- Abiru Eisaburo is born.
- Ryûtei Tanehiko commits suicide.
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