Edo period

Keichū 契沖 1640 Writer Matsudaira Masachika 松平昌親 1640 Samurai Shinshū Ōtani-ha Hakodate Betsu-in Temple 真宗大谷派函館別院 1641 Buddhist temple Tokugawa Ietsuna 徳川家綱 1641 Samurai Ihara Saikaku 井原西鶴 1642 Writer Maeda Tsunanori 前田綱紀 1643 Samurai Nabeshima Naoyuki 鍋島直之 1643 Samurai Hayashi Hōkō 林鳳岡 1644 Philosopher Matsuo Bashō 松尾芭蕉 1644 Painter Shōhō 正保 1645 Japanese era name Naitō Kiyokazu 内藤清枚 1646 Samurai Tokugawa Tsunayoshi 徳川綱吉 1646 Samurai Torii Tadanori 鳥居忠則 1646 Samurai Tsugaru Nobumasa 津軽信政 1646 Samurai Keian 慶安 1648 Japanese era name Ogasawara Nagashige 小笠原長重 1650 Samurai Mukai Kyorai 向井去来 1651 Writer Hanabusa Itchō 英一蝶 1652 Painter Jōō 承応 1652 Japanese era name Chikamatsu Monzaemon 近松門左衛門 1653 Writer Kanō Tanshin 狩野探信 1653 Painter Aoyama Tadashige 青山忠重 1654 Samurai Meireki 明暦 1655 Japanese era name Hachisuka Tsunamichi 蜂須賀綱通 1656 Samurai Arai Hakuseki 新井白石 1657 Historian Manji 万治 1658 Japanese era name Muro Kyūsō 室鳩巣 1658 Philosopher Ogata Kōrin 尾形光琳 1658 Painter Asano Tsunanaga 浅野綱長 1659 Samurai Date Tsunamura 伊達綱村 1659 Samurai Ōishi Yoshio 大石良雄 1659 Samurai Yamamoto Tsunetomo 山本常朝 1659 Philosopher Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu 柳沢吉保 1659 Samurai Matsudaira Suketoshi 松平資俊 1660 Samurai Hachisuka Tsunanori 蜂須賀綱矩 1661 Samurai Kanbun 寛文 1661 Japanese era name Manpuku-ji Temple 萬福寺 1661 Buddhist temple Takarai Kikaku 宝井其角 1661 Writer Uejima Onitsura 上島鬼貫 1661 Writer Tokugawa Ienobu 徳川家宣 1662 Politician Nagai Naohiro 永井直敬 1664 Samurai Sonome 斯波園女 1664 Writer Torii Kiyonobu 鳥居清信 1664 Painter Kagami Shikō 各務支考 1665 Writer Torii Tadateru 鳥居忠英 1665 Samurai Manabe Akifusa 間部詮房 1666 Samurai Ogyū Sorai 荻生徂徠 1666 Philosopher Konoe Iehiro 近衛家熙 1667 Samurai Nabeshima Naonori 鍋島直称 1667 Samurai Kada no Azumamaro 荷田春満 1669 Writer Kinokuniya Bunzaemon 紀伊國屋文左衛門 1669 Monk Kujō Sukezane 九条輔実 1669 Painter Mizuno Tadayuki 水野忠之 1669 Samurai Tsugaru Nobuhisa 津軽信寿 1669 Samurai Horibe Yasubei 堀部武庸 1670 Samurai Mori Naganao 森長直 1672 Samurai Enpō 延宝 1673 Japanese era name Ōoka Tadasuke 大岡忠相 1677 Samurai Hōzan-ji Temple 宝山寺 1678 Buddhist temple Date Yoshimura 伊達吉村 1680 Samurai