1643
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Kan'ei 20 (寛永二十年)
Timeline of 1643
Other Events of 1643
- Hayashi Razan and Hayashi Gahô complete the 186-volume Kan'ei shoka keizuden, the first compilation of official genealogies of the daimyô and hatamoto families.
- Shogunate bans the planting of cash crops (rapeseed, tobacco, and mulberries for the cultivation of silkworms) on certain lands.
- Empress Meishô succeeded by Emperor Go-Kômyô.
- Korean embassy journeys to Edo, and to Nikkô Tôshôgû, where a large bronze bell is presented from King Injo, which still hangs today before the Yômeimon at the shrine.
Births and Deaths
- 1643/1/14 Ôtomo Chikamori dies (b. 1567)
- 1643/9/14 Kasuga no Tsubone, nurse to Iemitsu, dies (b. 1579).
- 1643/11/13 Tenkai, Buddhist priest and shogunal advisor, dies (b. 1536).
- 1643/11/25 Tachibana Muneshige, Sengoku general, dies.
- 1643/12/26 Maeda Tsunanori, daimyô of Kaga han, is born (d. 1724).
- Onkeibo Chochen, founder of Jikiden-ryû of kenjutsu, dies (b. 1563).
- Togo Shigekura, founder of Jigen-ryû of kenjutsu, dies (b. 1563).
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