1456

Kôshô 2 (康正二年)

Other Events of 1456

• A bronze bell is cast by a Japanese metalworker as an offering to the Kingdom of Ryûkyû. This bell will later be installed in the Gokoku-ji, and taken by Commodore Matthew Perry back to Annapolis in 1853.
• A number of Korean sailors are cast ashore on Kumejima; their accounts of Kumejima customs, etc. remain extant today.

Births and Deaths

• Naata Ufushu (d. 1517), chief of Ishigaki-jima, is born.
• Prince Sadafusa dies (b. 1372).

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