{"slug": "edo-period", "label": "Edo period", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edo_period", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q184963", "qid": "Q184963", "description": "period of Japanese history from 1600 to 1868, during the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate", "entries": 7, "years": 7, "span": [1603, 1868], "span_label": ["1603 CE", "1868 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "tokugawa-shogunate", "label": "Tokugawa shogunate", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "tokugawa-ieyasu", "label": "Tokugawa Ieyasu", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "nagasaki", "label": "Nagasaki", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "japanese-era-name", "label": "Japanese era name", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1603, "year_label": "1603 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 24", "text": "March 24 – Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shōgun from Emperor Go-Yozei, and establishes the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo, Japan. The 265-year-long Edo period begins.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366656830#January–March", "title": "1603", "revid": 1366656830, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1635, "year_label": "1635 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "In Edo period Japan, the Sakoku Edict of 1635 enforces isolationism. Japanese are forbidden to travel abroad and unauthorised Europeans forbidden to enter under penalty of death. Christianity (Catholicism) is absolutely prohibited. Foreign merchants – Chinese and those of the Dutch East India Company – are restricted to enclaves in Nagasaki and access by the Portuguese is completely forbidden: an imperial memorandum decrees, \"Hereafter entry by the Portuguese galeota is forbidden. If they insist on coming, the ships must be destroyed and anyone aboard those ships must be beheaded.\"", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360049087#Date_unknown", "title": "1635", "revid": 1360049087, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1702, "year_label": "1702 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "The travel diary Oku no Hosomichi (\"Narrow road to the deep north\"), a major work of haibun by the Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō and one of the major texts of Japanese literature of the Edo period, is published eight years after Bashō's death.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362986314#Date_unknown", "title": "1702", "revid": 1362986314, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1760, "year_label": "1760 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "October 31", "text": "October 31? – Hokusai, born Katsushika Tokitarō, Japanese Edo period artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker (died 1849)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358844484#Births", "title": "1760", "revid": 1358844484, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1784, "year_label": "1784 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": null, "text": "Great Tenmei famine in Edo period Japan continues, as 300,000 die of starvation.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370567291#Date_unknown", "title": "1784", "revid": 1370567291, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1853, "year_label": "1853 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 27", "text": "July 27 – Iesada succeeds his father Ieyoshi as Japanese shōgun. The Late Tokugawa shogunate (the last part of the Edo period in Japan) begins.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352708271#July–September", "title": "1853", "revid": 1352708271, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1868, "year_label": "1868 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 23", "text": "October 23 – The current Japanese era name is changed to the Meiji period. The Edo period ends.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363668193#October", "title": "1868", "revid": 1363668193, "section": "Events › October"}}]}