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*Fifty-seven (or, according to some sources, 61) of approximately 70 Portuguese sailors who sailed from Macao to Japan bearing gifts in an attempt to regain Portuguese trading and missionary rights in Japan are executed, and their ship burned.
*Fifty-seven (or, according to some sources, 61) of approximately 70 Portuguese sailors who sailed from Macao to Japan bearing gifts in an attempt to regain Portuguese trading and missionary rights in Japan are executed, and their ship burned.
*Ayutthaya dispatches an envoy to request the resumption of trade and relations with Japan. The ship succumbs to typhoon or inclement weather and never makes it to Japan.
*Ayutthaya dispatches an envoy to request the resumption of trade and relations with Japan. The ship succumbs to typhoon or inclement weather and never makes it to Japan.
*[[Shimabara, Kyoto|Shimabara pleasure district]] in Kyoto is established.
*[[Shimabara, Kyoto|Shimabara pleasure district]] in Kyoto is established; prostitution in [[Osaka]] is restricted to the [[Shinmachi]] district.
*Ban on ''onna-[[kabuki]]'' is reissued.
*Ban on ''onna-[[kabuki]]'' is reissued.
*The shogunate forbids the [[Yoshiwara]] to operate at night.
*The shogunate forbids the [[Yoshiwara]] to operate at night.