1645
Shôhô 2 (正保二年)
Timeline of 1645
Other Events of 1645
- Miyamoto Musashi completes the Gorin no sho (Book of the Five Rings).
- Qing Imperial Court mandates Chinese and Chinese subjects to wear their hair in a queue (a long braid), in the Manchu style. Ryukyuans are excused from this mandate.
- Tenshu of Matsuyama castle (Iyo) is completed.
- Ban on onna-kabuki is reissued.
Births and Deaths
- Honda Narishige dies (b. 1571).
- Hosokawa Tadaoki dies (b. 1564).
- Maeda Mitsumasa, son of Maeda Toshitsune, dies (b. 1613).
- Miyamoto Musashi dies.
- Onodera Yoshimichi dies (b. 1566).
- Torii Kiyomoto, founder of the Torii school of ukiyo-e, is born (d. 1702).
- Uesugi Sadakatsu, son of Uesugi Kagekatsu, dies (b. 1603).
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