1722

Kyôhô 7 (享保七年)

Other Events of 1722

• Ban on foreign books is lifted; importation of Western books through Nagasaki resumes.
• Ichikawa Danjûrô II becomes the first Edo kabuki actor to achieve an annual salary of 1,000 ryô.
• The shogunate licenses 109 rice brokers and permits them to form a union.
• Double suicide is banned.
• The reign of the Kangxi Emperor comes to an end in China.
• Four waterworks channels in Edo are taken out of use, leaving the Tamagawa and Kanda channels providing water to the city.
• The shogunate's ban on yomiuri news-singers and news-papers is strengthened, but to little effect.

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