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Hôei 5 (宝永五年)

1708/1/3 Mt. Fuji, which began erupting on 1707/11/23, becomes dormant again. It has not erupted since.
1708/9 Sakata Tôjûrô I appears onstage for the final time, in a production of Yûgiri Nagori no Shôgatsu.
1708/12/3 Shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi issues his "Kindness to Animals Decrees." All animals are to be kindly treated; if horses get tired while being ridden, they are to be stabled and taken care of by whatever mansions are nearby; and, post-horses are not to be overtaxed, and are to be well taken care of in both shogunal and domain lands.

Arai Hakuseki meets with and interviews the Jesuit missionary Giovanni Battista Sidotti.
Arai Hakuseki completes his Sairan igen, credited as being the first systematic geography of the world to be produced in Japan.
Asano Yoshinaga succeeds Asano Tsunanaga as daimyô of Hiroshima han.
The Imperial Palace in Kyoto burns down; reconstruction is completed the following year.
The wooden Madan-bashi is rebuilt in stone.
Construction, begun in 1695, is completed on the Taku Seibyô in Taku, Saga han. It is today the oldest extant Confucian temple in Japan.
Tei Junsoku compiles the Six Courses in Morals (六諭衍義) and brings it back from China.

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 *[[Asano Yoshinaga]] succeeds [[Asano Tsunanaga]] as ''[[daimyo|daimyô]]'' of [[Hiroshima han]].
 *The [[Kyoto Imperial Palace|Imperial Palace]] in Kyoto burns down; reconstruction is completed the following year.
+*The wooden [[Madan-bashi]] is rebuilt in stone.
 *Construction, begun in [[1695]], is completed on the [[Taku Seibyo|Taku Seibyô]] in Taku, [[Saga han]]. It is today the oldest extant [[Confucian temple]] in Japan.
 *[[Tei Junsoku]] compiles the ''[[Six Courses in Morals]]'' (六諭衍義) and brings it back from China.