1692

Genroku 5 (元禄五年)

Timeline of 1692

Engelbert Kaempfer leaves Japan.
The Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Ryûkyû (the future King Shô Eki) visits Kagoshima, furthering a precedent established in 1660; from then on, all Ryukyuan Crown Princes were expected to pay a formal visit to Kagoshima upon reaching age fifteen.
Shogunate reissues a 1630 ban on the establishment of new Buddhist temples, but allows those that have been established in the intervening time to continue.

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