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Bunsei 4 (文政四年)

The Dutch East India Company (VOC) imports a pair of camels into Japan and parades them from Nagasaki up to Edo.
Shogunal territory in Ezo is returned to Matsumae han, and assimilation policies towards the Ainu are reversed - Ainu are now encouraged to be less Japanese; this in response to the lessening threat from Russia.
Inô Tadataka's Dai nihon enkai yochi zenzu, a series of 225 maps resulting from his own thorough surveys of the archipelago, is completed and submitted to the shogunate.

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 ==Other Events of 1821==
 *The [[Dutch East India Company]] (VOC) imports a pair of camels into Japan and parades them from Nagasaki up to Edo.
-*Shogunal territory in [[Ezo]] is turned over to [[Matsumae han]], and assimilation policies towards the [[Ainu]] are reversed - Ainu are now encouraged to be less Japanese; this in response to the lessening threat from [[Russia]].
+*Shogunal territory in [[Ezo]] is returned to [[Matsumae han]], and assimilation policies towards the [[Ainu]] are reversed - Ainu are now encouraged to be less Japanese; this in response to the lessening threat from [[Russia]].
+*[[Ino Tadataka|Inô Tadataka's]] ''Dai nihon enkai yochi zenzu'', a series of 225 maps resulting from his own thorough surveys of the archipelago, is completed and submitted to the shogunate.
 ===Births and Deaths===
+*1821/9/26 [[Arashi Rikan I]] dies.
 *Geographer [[Honda Toshiaki]] dies (b. [[1744]]).
+*The [[Taewongun]] is born (d. [[1898]]).
+*[[Yamagata Banto|Yamagata Bantô]] dies (b. [[1748]]).
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