1787

Tenmei 7 (天明七年)

Timeline of 1787

• 1787/2/16 Ikegawa paper Ikki
• 1787/4/15 Tokugawa Ienari becomes the 11th Shogun.
• 1787/5 Rice riots break out in Osaka; city residents band together and attack the rice storehouses.
• 1787/5/20-24 Similar riots break out in Edo, and around the same time or shortly afterwards in thirty other cities.
• 1787/6/19 Matsudaira Sadanobu launches the Kansei Reforms.
• 1787/8/4 Bakufu extends Thrift order.
• 1787/11/19 Kuchitanba Ikki.
• 1787/12/22 Doheiji Sôdô.

Other Events of 1787

• The Buke shohatto are repromulgated.
• Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse, a Frenchman, runs aground on a reef near Yaeyama Island.
• Matsudaira Sadanobu is appointed head of the rôjû.
• Matsumura Goshun joins Maruyama Ôkyo's Shijô studio.
• Morishima Chûryô's Kômô zatsuwa is published.
• The Hayashi clan school at the Yushima Seidô is officially renamed Shôheizaka gakumonjo, and brought under the direct control of the shogunate, to serve as a site for the education and training of shogunal and domainal officials.
• The Great Tenmei Famine abates, and comes to an end.
• Tay Son Rebellion - Le Chieu Thong is pushed out of Dong Kinh by Tay Son leader Nguyen Van Hung, and flees to China.
• A fire ravages the Yoshiwara.

Births and Deaths

• Ninomiya Sontoku is born (d. 1856).
• Yanagawa Shigenobu is born (d. 1832).

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