1641

Kan'ei 18 (寛永十八年)

Other Events of 1641

• The shogunate assigns Fukuoka han the responsibility of defending Nagasaki harbor.
• Final Maritime Restrictions (kaikin) Edicts are issued.
• Dutch East India Company factory is moved to Dejima, to which the Dutch are restricted.
• First official records of Dutch commerce at Nagasaki (fûsetsugaki) are produced.
• Monopoly privileges on silk under the itowappu system are extended to the Dutch East India Company.
• Shô Ken takes the throne in Ryûkyû.
• A fire destroys the five-story pagoda at Tô-ji.
• Women associated with the Yoshiwara are forbidden from leaving the quarter without special permission.

Births and Deaths

• Tokugawa Ietsuna is born (d. 1680).

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