1825

Bunsei 8 (文政八年)

Other Events of 1825

• Tôkaidô Yotsuya Kaidan premieres at the Nakamura-za.
• Edict to Repel Foreign Vessels decreed.

Births and Deaths

• 1825/2/21 Raiden Tameemon, sumo wrestler, dies (b. 1767).
• 1825/3/6 Matsushima Gôzô, samurai of Chôshû, born (d. 1865).
• 1825/4/26 Gô Junzô, shogunate official, born (d. 1910).
• 1825/7/3 Matsudaira Takenari, daimyô of Hamada han in Iwami province, born (d. 1847).
• 1825/7/11 Rai Mikisaburô, Confucian scholar, born (d. 1859).
• 1825/7/27 Satake Yoshitaka, daimyô of Kubota han, born (d. 1884).
• 1825/8/7 Matsudaira Tadayuki, daimyô of Obata han, born (d. 1902).
• 1825/9/6 Date Yoshikuni, daimyô of Sendai han, born (d. 1874).
• 1825/9/15 Iwakura Tomomi, Meiji bureaucrat, born (d. 1883).
• 1825/11/3 Ema Tenkô, poet, born (d. 1901).
• 1825/11/17 Watarai Takahisa, karô of Shibamura han, born (d. 1896).
• Nihonga painter Suzuki Hyakunen is born (d. 1891).
• Utagawa Toyokuni, head of the Utagawa school of ukiyo-e artists, dies (b. 1769).
• Yamanouchi Toyoatsu, daimyô of Tosa han, is born (d. 1854).

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