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*''Dates: c. [[1833]]-[[1837]]''
The Tenpô era ([[1830]]-[[1844]]) saw one of the most significant famines of the [[Edo period]]. Lasting from roughly [[1833]] to [[1837]],<ref>[[Mark Ravina]], ''Land and Lordship in Early Modern Japan'', Stanford University Press (1999), 187.</ref> the famine killed many throughout the archipelago.
Some domains, such as [[Tokushima han|Tokushima]] and [[Yonezawa han|Yonezawa]] were comparatively less hard hit by the Tenpô famine; in the case of Yonezawa, this was in large part due to the domain's prosperity and effective agricultural policies. Cold winds and unseasonable precipitation patterns ruined crops as far south as [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû]] (where it was quite dry), and as far north as [[Hirosaki han|Hirosaki]] (which saw heavy rains, as did many other parts of "mainland" Japan), however. In [[1836]] alone, roughly 100,000 people died of starvation.
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The Tenpô era ([[1830]]-[[1844]]) saw one of the most significant famines of the [[Edo period]]. Lasting from roughly [[1833]] to [[1837]],<ref>[[Mark Ravina]], ''Land and Lordship in Early Modern Japan'', Stanford University Press (1999), 187.</ref> the famine killed many throughout the archipelago.
Some domains, such as [[Tokushima han|Tokushima]] and [[Yonezawa han|Yonezawa]] were comparatively less hard hit by the Tenpô famine; in the case of Yonezawa, this was in large part due to the domain's prosperity and effective agricultural policies. Cold winds and unseasonable precipitation patterns ruined crops as far south as [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû]] (where it was quite dry), and as far north as [[Hirosaki han|Hirosaki]] (which saw heavy rains, as did many other parts of "mainland" Japan), however. In [[1836]] alone, roughly 100,000 people died of starvation.
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==References==
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[[Category:Events and Incidents]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]