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*''Date: [[1732]]''
The Kyôho famine, brought on by hordes of locusts, struck the [[Seto Inland Sea]] region and [[Kyushu]] in [[1732]], causing rice prices throughout the region to increase by a factor of seven. Roughly 22% of the population of [[Fukuoka han]], or 70,000 people, died due to the famine; among certain classes and communities, the proportion was as high as 45%. Fukuoka's population did not recover to pre-famine levels until the [[Bakumatsu period]].
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==References==
*Arne Kalland, ''Fishing Villages in Tokugawa Japan'', University of Hawaii Press (1995), 54-55.
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[[Category:Edo Period]]
The Kyôho famine, brought on by hordes of locusts, struck the [[Seto Inland Sea]] region and [[Kyushu]] in [[1732]], causing rice prices throughout the region to increase by a factor of seven. Roughly 22% of the population of [[Fukuoka han]], or 70,000 people, died due to the famine; among certain classes and communities, the proportion was as high as 45%. Fukuoka's population did not recover to pre-famine levels until the [[Bakumatsu period]].
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==References==
*Arne Kalland, ''Fishing Villages in Tokugawa Japan'', University of Hawaii Press (1995), 54-55.
[[Category:Events and Incidents]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]