// Workers AI · dad joke modeDid 1609 in Japan have a good year? Yes, it was a 'rising' sun.

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Events of the year 1609 in Japan.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Go-Yōzei
• Shogun: Tokugawa Hidetada

Events

• April 5: The Invasion of Ryukyu occurs. Soldiers of the Shimazu clan of Satsuma Domain capture the Ryuku capital and make the Ryukyu Kingdom a vassal of Satsuma. The kingdom is still allowed to keep its status as a tribute state of the Ming and later Qing empires until its annexation into Japan in 1879.

• November 29: A treaty is signed between Spanish nobleman Rodrigo de Vivero, former governor-general of the Philippines, and ōgosho Tokugawa Ieyasu for the purposes of establishing a Spanish factory in eastern Japan.

• Date unknown: The Dutch East India Company establishes a trading post in Hirado.

Births

N/A

Deaths

• June 15: Yamada Arinobu, retainer of the Shimazu clan during the Sengoku period. (b.1544)