* 1584/11/12 [[Luis Frois]] composes a letter to Rome, requesting 50,000 religious paintings, a printing press, plates from which prints could be made, and printing technicians. (The request would not be filled, on account of a lack of supply in Rome.)
* 1584/12/25 Sasa Narimasa meets [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] at [[Hamamatsu castle]].
* 1584/12/25 Sasa Narimasa meets [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] at [[Hamamatsu castle]].
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==Other Events==
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==Other Events of 1584==
*First Spanish trading ships arrive at [[Hirado]].
*First Spanish trading ships arrive at [[Hirado]].
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*[[Kano Eitoku|Kanô Eitoku]] and members of the [[Kano school|Kanô school]] produce paintings to decorate [[Osaka castle]].
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*Hideyoshi orders a land survey of [[Omi province|Ômi province]]; his ''[[Taiko kenchi|Taikô kenchi]]'' ("The Taikô's Land Survey") enters its mature phase.
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*Hideyoshi orders all ''daimyô'' to construct mansions in [[Osaka]], where they can attend upon him and where he can keep an eye on them.
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===Births and Deaths===
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*Tea master [[Kanamori Sowa|Kanamori Sôwa]] is born (d. [[1656]]).