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==Other Events of 1764==
 
==Other Events of 1764==
 
*An optique (a box with mirror and lens, for viewing perspective pictures) is first imported into Japan, by the [[Dutch East India Company]].
 
*An optique (a box with mirror and lens, for viewing perspective pictures) is first imported into Japan, by the [[Dutch East India Company]].
*Korean embassy journeys to Edo for the last time. (One later mission, in [[1811]], goes only as far as [[Tsushima han]].) [[Korean embassy to Edo 1764|The entourage]] consists of 498 people, and the journey takes 382 days in total.
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*Korean embassy journeys to Edo for the last time. (One later mission, in [[1811]], goes only as far as [[Tsushima han]].) The entourage consists of 498 people, and the journey takes 382 days in total.
 
*Peasants in eastern Japan protest the financial burden on them (in the form of taxes, etc.) to finance the reception of the Korean embassies.
 
*Peasants in eastern Japan protest the financial burden on them (in the form of taxes, etc.) to finance the reception of the Korean embassies.
 
*[[Ryukyuan embassy]] journeys to Edo.
 
*[[Ryukyuan embassy]] journeys to Edo.
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