1856

Ansei 3 (安政三年)

Timeline of 1856

• 1856/1/4 Treaty of Peace and Amity is signed between the Netherlands and Japan.
• 1856/8 Henry Heusken arrives in Japan.
• 1856/11 Atsu-hime formally enters Edo castle as the shogun's wife.
• 1856/12/18 Shogun Tokugawa Iesada and Atsu-hime are formally married.

Other Events of 1856

• The shogunate establishes the kôbusho.
• Commodore Matthew Perry presents his Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan to Congress.
• The Second Opium War breaks out (ends 1860).
• The Yôgakusho (Bureau of Western Studies) is renamed the Bansho Shirabesho (Institute for the Study of Western Books).

Births and Deaths

• Yôga painter Asai Chû is born (d. 1907).
• Confucian scholar Hirose Tansô dies (b. 1782).
• Ninomiya Sontoku dies (b. 1787).

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