1837 in Japan explained

Events in the year 1837 in Japan.

Incumbents

• Monarch

Ninkō^[1]

Events

• July – Morrison incident: A US ship is fired on by cannon when entering Tokyo Bay while attempting to repatriate castaway Japanese citizens.^[2]
• Tenpō famine which began in 1833 comes to an end.^[3]

Births

• 28 October – Tokugawa Yoshinobu, 15th and last Tokugawa shogunate (d. 1913)^[4]

Notes and References

1. Book: Shillony . Ben-Ami . The Emperors of Modern Japan . 2008 . BRILL . 978-90-04-16822-0 . 317 . en.
2. Drury . Clifford M. . Early American Contacts with the Japanese . The Pacific Northwest Quarterly . 1945 . 36 . 4 . 319–330 . 40732703 . 8 November 2023 . 0030-8803.
3. Book: Holm . Fynn . The Gods of the Sea: Whales and Coastal Communities in Northeast Japan, c.1600-2019 . 24 August 2023 . Cambridge University Press . 978-1-009-30551-8 . 92 . en.
4. Book: Shimamoto . Mayako . Ito . Koji . Sugita . Yoneyuki . Historical Dictionary of Japanese Foreign Policy . 1 July 2015 . Rowman & Littlefield . 978-1-4422-5067-3 . 297–298 . en.