1841

Tenpô 12 (天保十二年)

Other Events of 1841

• The Nakamura-za is destroyed in a fire.
• Philipp Franz von Siebold's Manners and Customs of the Japanese in the Nineteenth Century is published.
• Publishers' Associations (toiya nakama) are abolished, and censorship duties pass from representatives appointed by the publishers to minor officials appointed by the shogunate.
• The first of the Tenpô Reforms are put into place.
• Tokugawa Ieyoshi becomes the last shogun to make a formal visit to Nikkô Tôshôgû. His journey is depicted in numerous kawaraban publications.
• An envoy from Tsushima journeys to Pusan and formally requests a Korean embassy be sent - only so far as Tsushima, and not to Edo - in recognition of the accession of Tokugawa Ieyoshi as shogun in 1837.

Births and Deaths

• 1841/4/17 Kumebe Masachika is born (d. 1910).
• 1841/10/11 Watanabe Kazan commits suicide (b. 1793).
• Painter Ekin dies (b. 1791).
• Hokusai biographer Iijima Kyôshin is born (d. 1901).
• Itô Hirobumi is born (d. 1909).
• Photographer Kusakabe Kimbei is born (d. 1934).
• Sculptor Vincenzo Ragusa is born (d. 1927).
• Matsura Seizan, daimyô of Hirado han, dies (b. 1760).
• Ryukyuan painter Shô Genko dies (b. 1784).
• Painter Tani Bunchô dies (b. 1763).
• Scottish merchant Thomas Glover is born (d. 1911).
• Yamano Yasohachi of the Shinsengumi is born (d. 1910).

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