1605
Keichô 10 (慶長十年)
Timeline of 1605
- 1605/10 Map of the provinces and record of municipalities are created.
Other Events of 1605
- Tokugawa Hidetada is named shogun, though his father Ieyasu continues to wield actual power.
- An earthquake strikes the Tôkai region.
- Hidetada journeys to Kyoto.
- 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.
- An unofficial Korean embassy - the first since the Korean Invasions - arrives in Edo.
- Maeda Toshinaga retires in favor of his brother Toshitsune.
- Sweet potatoes are introduced to Okinawa by Noguni Sôkan.
- The Buddhist monk Taichû completes his Ryûkyû Shintô ki, an account of traditional Ryukyuan religion which also marks the invention of the myth of Minamoto no Tametomo as ancestor to the Ryukyuan royal line.
- 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.
- Okuni and her proto-kabuki troupe perform in Edo.
- A number of brothels are moved from the Ôhashi area to Seiganji-mae to make room for the expansion of Edo castle.
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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