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==Timeline of 1790==
==Timeline of 1790==
*1790/5 The [[Kansei reforms]] are promulgated, imposing new regulations on publishing.
*1790/2/19 Workhouses called ''[[ninsoku yoseba]]'' open at Ishikawajima in [[Edo]].
*1790/5 The [[Kansei reforms]] are promulgated further, imposing new regulations on publishing.
**Includes bans on books containing unorthodox ideas, those produced under pseudonyms, and those written in ''[[kana]]'' and based on "baseless rumors", along with those books and prints depicting current events in the guise of historical tales. Extravagant objects with "rhetorical flourishes" are likewise banned.
**Includes bans on books containing unorthodox ideas, those produced under pseudonyms, and those written in ''[[kana]]'' and based on "baseless rumors", along with those books and prints depicting current events in the guise of historical tales. Extravagant objects with "rhetorical flourishes" are likewise banned.
**Single-sheet prints must now contain not only the names of designer (artist) and publisher, but also a ''kiwame'' censors' seal.
**Single-sheet prints must now contain not only the names of designer (artist) and publisher, but also a ''kiwame'' censors' seal.
*1790/9/14 The [[Omotesenke]] school hosts the first of a series of events commemorating the 200th anniversary of the death of [[Sen no Rikyu|Sen no Rikyû]].
*1790/10 The regulations on publishing of the Fifth Month are re-promulgated.
*1790/10 The regulations on publishing of the Fifth Month are re-promulgated.
*1790/10/6 The neighborhood heads in Edo are divided into seventeen groups.
*1790/11 The system by which publishers appointed representatives (''gyôji'') to serve as censors is extended to the makers of prints and picturebooks, where previously only publishers of books containing prose had to appoint ''gyôji''. Booklenders and wholesalers are now also required to have their merchandise inspected.
*1790/11 The system by which publishers appointed representatives (''gyôji'') to serve as censors is extended to the makers of prints and picturebooks, where previously only publishers of books containing prose had to appoint ''gyôji''. Booklenders and wholesalers are now also required to have their merchandise inspected.
*The shogunate closes over forty illegal pleasure districts in Edo.
*The shogunate closes over forty illegal pleasure districts in Edo.
*[[Maruyama Okyo|Maruyama Ôkyo]] and his students take part in renovation efforts at the [[Kyoto Gosho|Imperial Palace]].
*[[Maruyama Okyo|Maruyama Ôkyo]] and his students take part in renovation efforts at the [[Kyoto Gosho|Imperial Palace]].
*The [[Qianlong Emperor]] invites troupes to perform for his 80th birthday. Ambassadors from numerous regions within China, and foreign countries, are in attendance at a month-long series of celebrations in [[Chendge]] and [[Beijing]]. The birth of Beijing opera, or ''[[jingju]]'', is traced to this occasion.
*[[Ryukyuan embassy]] departs for [[Edo]].
*The first Japanese trading post on [[Sakhalin]] is established.
===Births and Deaths===
===Births and Deaths===