1615
Keichô 20 (慶長二十年) / Genna 1 (元和一年)
Timeline of 1615
- 1615/1 A cease-fire is called at Osaka castle.
- 1615/4/26 The Osaka Summer Campaign begins.
- 1615/5/7 Sanada Yukimura killed in the battle.
- 1615/5/8 The Toyotomi army is defeated in the Battle of Tennôji; Hideyori commits suicide.
- 1615/int. 6/13 The shogunate implements the "one castle per domain" policy, requiring each han to maintain no more than one castle within its borders.
- 1615/7/7 Tokugawa Ieyasu orders the preparation of the Buke Shohatto (Laws for Warrior Houses), which Ishin Sûden reads to an assembly of daimyô at Fushimi.
- 1615/7/13 Genna era begins.
- 1615/7/17 Tokugawa Ieyasu issues Kinchu Narabini Kuge Shohatto (Laws for Aristocrats)
- 1615/9/21 The Môri clan's mansion in Edo burns down; the fire spreads to the Shimazu clan's Sakurada mansion, among others destroying them as well.
Other Events of 1615
- Kanô Naganobu is named official painter (goyô eshi) to the Tokugawa shogunate, marking the beginning of the Kanô school holding this position as official court painters.
- The first Kawaraban is published.
Births and Deaths of 1615
- 1615/2 Painter Kaihô Yûshô dies (b. 1533).
- 1615/5/8 Toyotomi Hideyori commits suicide (b. 1593).
- Furuta Oribe dies (b. 1544).
- Kimura Shigenari dies (b.1594).
- Sanada Yukimura dies.
- Yodogimi dies (b. 1567).
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