Kan'ei 16 (寛永十六年)
Timeline of 1639
Other Events
- All Westerners are banned from Japan, except for the Dutch, who are restricted to Hirado. Roughly 30 Japanese women and their children by Dutch or British men leave for Batavia.
- Hongan-ji school is established in Kyoto; these grounds are today Ryûkoku University.
- Reconstruction efforts are completed on Matsumae castle, which was destroyed two years previous.
- Maeda Toshitsune retires as daimyô of Kaga han, and is succeeded by his son Maeda Mitsumasa.
Births and Deaths
- Kuroda Tadamasa dies (b. 1612).
- Ôkubo Tadataka dies (b. 1560).
- Ôtomo Yoshinobu dies.
- Taira Shigesuke, author of Bushidô Shôshinshû, is born (d. 1730).
- Uesugi Tsunakatsu, daimyô of Yonezawa, is born (d. 1664).
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