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Kanbun 4 (寛文四年)

1664/3/27 Bakufu Mizuno Jûrozaemon to commit seppuku.
1664/8/4 Farmers of a village in Kai province run away for heavy taxation.
1664/11/28 About 30 farmers in Saijô han get executed for refusing heavy taxation.
1664/12/7 Yagyû Munefuyu teaches kenjutsu to Shogun Ietsuna.

Uesugi Tsunanori, son of Kira Yoshinaka, adopted into Uesugi clan to become daimyô of Yonezawa han.
Danna-dera system is imposed, under which all Japanese are mandated to register with a temple.
Hinin no Katakiuchi, the first two-act kabuki play, debuts. The playwright is, for the first time in kabuki, publicly credited with having written a play.
The shogunate bans wigs from the kabuki stage.
The term shibai is first applied to kabuki.

1664/int.5/7 Uesugi Tsunakatsu (b. 1639), daimyô of Yonezawa, dies with no heir.

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 *[[Uesugi Tsunanori]], son of [[Kira Yoshinaka]], adopted into [[Uesugi clan]] to become ''daimyô'' of [[Yonezawa han]].
 *''Danna-dera'' system is imposed, under which all Japanese are mandated to register with a temple.
-*The shogunate bans wigs from the [[kabuki]] stage.
+*''[[Hinin no Katakiuchi]]'', the first two-act [[kabuki]] play, debuts. The playwright is, for the first time in kabuki, publicly credited with having written a play.
+*The shogunate bans wigs from the kabuki stage.
+*The term ''shibai'' is first applied to kabuki.
 ===Births and Deaths of 1664===