1640
Kan'ei 17 (寛永十七年)
Timeline of 1640
Other Events
- Shogunal post of Shûmon kaiyaku is created to oversee and enforce the bans on Christianity. Ô-metsuke Inoue Masashige is the first appointed to the post.
- Ayutthaya dispatches an envoy to request the resumption of trade and relations with Japan. The ship succumbs to typhoon or inclement weather and never makes it to Japan.
- Shimabara pleasure district in Kyoto is established.
- Ban on onna-kabuki is reissued.
- The shogunate forbids the Yoshiwara to operate at night.
- Shogunate begins using nengô (Japanese era names) in correspondence with China, indicating a lessened acknowledgment of Chinese authority or centrality.
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