1795

Kansei 7 (寛政七年)

Timeline of 1795

• 1795/2 Sharaku ceases producing ukiyo-e prints.
• 1795/3 Tachibana Nankei's Saiyûki is published.
• 1795/8 Tachibana Nankei's Tôyûki is published.

Other Events of 1795

• The Kansei Reforms are implemented.
  • The shogunate closes over fifty illegal pleasure districts in Edo.
• Maruyama Ôzui succeeds his father as head of the Maruyama family, and takes his father's studio name 'Mondo'.
• A Ryukyuan ship crashes at Shimoda, Nakamura city, Tosa province. The 35-year-old passenger (or crewman), Zanami, dies and is buried in the mountains behind the Rinzai Zen temple Nanshû-ji (in modern-day Shimanto city).
• Representatives of the Dutch East India Company pay tribute and kowtow to the Chinese Emperor in Beijing.
• Shô On succeeds his grandfather Shô Boku as King of Ryûkyû.

Births and Deaths

• Painter Maruyama Ôkyo dies (b. 1733).

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