1626

Kan'ei 3 (寛永三年)

Timeline of 1626

• 1626/9/3 Construction is completed on Ueno Tôshôgû.
• 1626/10 The Yoshiwara opens; courtesans' contracts are limited to ten years.

Other Events of 1626

• Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu journeys to Kyoto.
• Three years of renovations on Nijô castle, including the creation of fusuma paintings by Kanô Tan'yû come to an end.
• Ishin Sûden, shogunal foreign affairs advisor, is named Enshô Honkô Kokushi by Emperor Go-Mizunoo.
• Shimazu Tadatsune is named Chûnagon.
• Oze Hoan writes the Taikô-ki, a biography of Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
• A Japanese Christian mission is established in Tonkin.
• Nguyen lords sever ties with Trinh and begin to rule southern Vietnam in earnest.

Births and Deaths

• Godai Tomoyoshi, Shimazu clan retainer, dies (b. 1539).
• Kanze Kokusetsu dies.
• Christian daimyo Naitô Joan dies.
• Nose Yoritsugu, retainer to Mitsuhide and Hideyoshi, dies (b. 1562).
• Nurhachi dies (b. 1559).
• Oeyo, wife of Tokugawa Hidetada, dies.
• Tokugawa Mitsusada is born (d. 1705).
• Wakizaka Yasuharu, one of the Seven Spears of Shizugatake, dies (b. 1554).
• Yamana Toyokuni, lord of Inaba, dies (b. 1548).
• Yamaoka Shigekage, Date clan retainer, dies (b. 1544).

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