1584

Tenshô 12 (天正十二年)

Timeline of 1584

• 1584/4/9 Battle of Nagakute
• 1584/11 Sassa Narimasa "Sarasara goe"
• 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.

Other Events of 1584

• First Spanish trading ships arrive at Hirado.
• Kanô Eitoku and members of the Kanô school produce paintings to decorate Osaka castle.
• Hideyoshi orders a land survey of Ômi province; his Taikô kenchi ("The Taikô's Land Survey") enters its mature phase.
• Hideyoshi orders all daimyô to construct mansions in Osaka, where they can attend upon him and where he can keep an eye on them.

Births and Deaths

• Tea master Kanamori Sôwa is born (d. 1656).

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