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Meireki 3 (明暦三年)

1657/1/18-1/20 Great Meireki Fire ravages Edo, destroying over 60% of the city and killing over 100,000 people.
1657/2/23 Bakufu send Kuni Metsuke to Kantô region.
1657/2/29 Kaikô-in is established to bury the victims of Meireki fire.
1657/5 The Shin-Yoshiwara which began to be built further upriver the previous year, is completed and opened, replacing the Yoshiwara pleasure district destroyed in the fire.
1657/7/18 Hatamoto Mizuno Jûrozaemon kills Banzuiin Chôbei.

Aytthaya dispatches an envoy for the final time to request the resumption of trade and relations with Japan. The request is refused.
Tokugawa Mitsukuni begins writing Dai Nihon Shi (The Great History of Japan).
Reconstruction completed on Nishio castle in Mikawa province.
The Chinese put into place qianjie policies, removing residents from the coasts further inland, and suspending nearly all coastal activity.
Shogunal regulations on sake brewing put into place.

Meireki 2/12/1 Itakura Shigemune, Kyoto Shoshidai, dies (b. 1586).
1657/1/23 Hayashi Razan, shogunal advisor, dies (b. 1583).
1657/2/10 Arai Hakuseki, shogunal advisor, is born (d. 1725).
1657/2/22 Sanada Yukimichi, daimyô of Matsushiro han, is born (d. 1727).
1657/3/6 Yamazaki Haruyori, daimyô of Marugame han, dies (b. 1650).
1657/3/20 Matsudaira Yorimichi, daimyô of Hitachishishido han, is born (d. 1721).
1657/3/24 Nabeshima Katsushige, daimyô of Saga han, dies (b. 1580).
1657/3/30 Toda Ujisada, daimyô of Ôgaki han, is born (d. 1733).
1657/4/16 Niwa Ujisada, daimyô of Iwamura han, dies (b. 1615).
1657/6/2 Matsunaga Shakugo, Confucian scholar, dies (b. 1592).
1657/7/27 Akimoto Tomitomo, daimyô of Yamura han, dies (b. 1610).
1657/8/15 Sakai Tadayasu, daimyô of Matsuyama han, is born (d. 1736).
1657/9/6 Seki Nagaharu, daimyô of Miimi han and Miyagawa han, is born (d. 1738).
1657/9/28 Suwa Tadatsune, daimyô of Suwa han, dies (b. 1595).
1657/10/27 Itô Sukehisa, daimyô of Obi han, dies (b. 1609).
Imai Jikan, kokugaku scholar, is born (d. 1723).
Ôtawara Norikiyo, daimyô of Ôtawara han, is born (d. 1694).
Katô Yasutsune, daimyô of Ôzu han, is born (d. 1715).
Kuki Takanori, daimyô of Sanda han, is born (d. 1686).

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 *1657/2/23 Bakufu send [[Mestuke|Kuni Metsuke]] to Kantô region.
 *1657/2/29 [[Kaiko-in|Kaikô-in]] is established to bury the victims of Meireki fire.
-*1657/7/18 ''[[Hatamoto]]'' [[Mizuno Jurozaemon|Mizuno Jurôzaemon]] kills [[Banzuiin Chobei|Banzuiin Chôbei]].
+*1657/5 The [[Yoshiwara|Shin-Yoshiwara]] which began to be built further upriver the previous year, is completed and opened, replacing the Yoshiwara pleasure district destroyed in the fire.
+*1657/7/18 ''[[Hatamoto]]'' [[Mizuno Jurozaemon|Mizuno Jûrozaemon]] kills [[Banzuiin Chobei|Banzuiin Chôbei]].
 ==Other Events==
+*Aytthaya dispatches an envoy for the final time to request the resumption of trade and relations with Japan. The request is refused.
 *[[Tokugawa Mitsukuni]] begins writing ''[[Dai Nihon Shi]]'' (The Great History of Japan).
 *Reconstruction completed on [[Nishio castle]] in [[Mikawa province]].
+*The Chinese put into place ''[[qianjie]]''<!--遷界--> policies, removing residents from the coasts further inland, and suspending nearly all coastal activity.
 *Shogunal regulations on sake brewing put into place.<!--酒造統制-->