1787

Tenmei 7 (天明七年)

Timeline of 1787

1787/5 Rice riots break out in Osaka; city residents band together and attack the rice storehouses. Similar riots break out shortly afterward in Edo and thirty other cities.

The Buke shohatto are repromulgated.
Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse, a Frenchman, runs aground on a reef near Yaeyama Island.
Matsudaira Sadanobu is appointed head of the rôjû.
Matsumura Goshun joins Maruyama Ôkyo's Shijô studio.
The Hayashi clan school at the Yushida Seidô is officially renamed Shôheizaka gakumonjo, and brought under the direct control of the shogunate, to serve as a site for the education and training of shogunal and domainal officials.
Tokugawa Ienari becomes shogun.
A fire ravages the Yoshiwara.

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