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==Timeline of 1790==
==Timeline of 1790==
*1790/5 The [[Kansei reforms]] are promulgated, imposing new regulations on publishing.
*1790/2/19 Workhouses called ''[[ninsoku yoseba]]'' open at Ishikawajima in [[Edo]].
*1790/5 The [[Kansei reforms]] are promulgated further, imposing new regulations on publishing.
**Includes bans on books containing unorthodox ideas, those produced under pseudonyms, and those written in ''[[kana]]'' and based on "baseless rumors", along with those books and prints depicting current events in the guise of historical tales. Extravagant objects with "rhetorical flourishes" are likewise banned.
**Includes bans on books containing unorthodox ideas, those produced under pseudonyms, and those written in ''[[kana]]'' and based on "baseless rumors", along with those books and prints depicting current events in the guise of historical tales. Extravagant objects with "rhetorical flourishes" are likewise banned.
**Single-sheet prints must now contain not only the names of designer (artist) and publisher, but also a ''kiwame'' censors' seal.
**Single-sheet prints must now contain not only the names of designer (artist) and publisher, but also a ''kiwame'' censors' seal.
*1790/10 The regulations on publishing of the Fifth Month are re-promulgated.
*1790/10 The regulations on publishing of the Fifth Month are re-promulgated.
*1790/10/6 The neighborhood heads in Edo are divided into seventeen groups.
*1790/11 The system by which publishers appointed representatives (''gyôji'') to serve as censors is extended to the makers of prints and picturebooks, where previously only publishers of books containing prose had to appoint ''gyôji''. Booklenders and wholesalers are now also required to have their merchandise inspected.
*1790/11 The system by which publishers appointed representatives (''gyôji'') to serve as censors is extended to the makers of prints and picturebooks, where previously only publishers of books containing prose had to appoint ''gyôji''. Booklenders and wholesalers are now also required to have their merchandise inspected.
