1603 in Japan
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Events in the year 1603 in Japan
Incumbents
[edit]- Monarch: Go-Yōzei
- Shogun: Tokugawa Ieyasu (starting March 24th)
Events
[edit]- March 24: Tokugawa Ieyasu is appointed shogun, beginning both the Tokugawa Shogunate and the Edo period. [1]
- November – Rokugō rebellion: More than 1,000 rōnin rebel in support of their exiled lord, Onodera Yoshimichi.[2]
- Female entertainer Izumo no Okuni originates kabuki dance drama in Kyoto.
- The earliest of eight companies that will eventually merge to form the Kikkoman Corporation, the producers of soy sauce, is founded.
Births
[edit]- September 15 – Tokugawa Yorifusa, daimyo (d. 1661)
Deaths
[edit]- September 19 – Matsudaira Iemoto, samurai (b. 1548)
References
[edit]- ↑ Perez, Louis G. (1998). The History of Japan. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 123–124. ISBN 0-313-00793-4. OCLC 51689128.
- ↑ Turnbull, Stephen (2013). "The ghosts of Amakusa: localised opposition to centralised control in Higo Province, 1589–1590". Japan Forum. 25 (2). Taylor & Francis: 191–211. doi:10.1080/09555803.2012.745586. S2CID 144893702.
