1605
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Keichô 10 (慶長十年)
Timeline of 1605
- 1605/10 Map of the provinces and record of municipalities are created.
Other Events
- Tokugawa Hidetada is named shogun, though his father Ieyasu continues to wield actual power.
- Construction is completed on Kôdai-ji in Kyoto; Toyotomi Hideyoshi and his wife Kôdai-in are buried there.
- Konoe Nobusuke is named Kampaku and adopted as son and heir to Emperor Go-Yôzei.
- Maeda Toshinaga retires in favor of his brother Toshitsune.
- Sweet potatoes are introduced to Okinawa by Noguni Sôkan.
- Tei Dô (Jana ueekata) is appointed to the Sanshikan.
- Jacob Quaeckernaeck, captain of the Liefde, obtains a shuinjô, and departs Japan aboard a ship provided by the lord of Hirado.
- Japanese pirates attack a British ship off Pattani, and kill the captain, John David.
Births and Deaths
- Gamô Tadamoto is born (d. 1634).
- Hanabusa Masayuki dies (b. 1524).
- Mikumo Shigemochi dies.
- Ôtomo Yoshimune, last head of the Ôtomo clan, dies.
- Terashima Morinori dies.
- Tokugawa Nobuyoshi dies.
- Tokugawa Tadateru dies (b. 1583).
- Yamauchi Kazutoyo dies (b. 1546).
- Yui Shôsetsu, leader of the Keian Uprising, is born (d. 1651).
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