1708
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Hôei 5 (宝永五年)
Timeline of 1708
- 1708/9 Sakata Tôjûrô I appears onstage for the final time, in a production of Yûgiri Nagori no Shôgatsu.
Other Events of 1708
- Asano Yoshinaga succeeds Asano Tsunanaga as daimyô of Hiroshima han.
- Construction, begun in 1695, is completed on the Taku Seibyô in Taku, Saga han. It is today the oldest extant Confucian temple in Japan.
- Tei Junsoku compiles the Six Courses in Morals (六諭衍義) and brings it back from China.
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