the previous one—which had been ordered in Shōhō 1 (1605) and completed in Kan'ei 16 (1639). This map was corrected in Kyōhō 4 (1719) by the mathematician Tatebe Katahiro (1644–1739), using high mountain peaks as points of reference, and was drawn to a scale of 1:21,600. 1697 (Genroku 10): Great fire in Edo. 1698 (Genroku 11): Another great fire in Edo. A new hall is constructed inside the enclosure of the Edo temple of Kan'ei-ji (which is also known as Tōeizan Kan'ei-ji or "Hiei-san of the east" after the temple of Enryaku-ji at Mount Hiei near to Heian-kyō). 1700 (Genroku 13, 11th month): Exchange rate of silver coins established. 1703 (Genroku 15, 12th month): Akō Domain incident involving the 47 . 1703 (Genroku 16, 3rd month): Ōishi Yoshio commits ritual suicide. 1703 (Genroku 16, 5th month): First performance of Chikamatsu Monzaemon's play The Love Suicides at Sonezaki. December 31, 1703 (Genroku 16, 23rd day of the 11th month): The Great Genroku earthquake shook Edo and parts of the shogun's castle collapsed. The following day, a vast fire spread throughout the city. Parts of Honshū's coast were battered by tsunami, and up to 200,000 people were either killed or injured. Prominent figures of the Genroku era Chikamatsu Monzaemon— playwright Ichikawa Danjūrō I, Sakata Tōjūrō I, Yoshizawa Ayame I—kabuki actors Ihara Saikaku—novelist Arai Hakuseki—Confucian scholar and shogunal advisor The Forty-seven Ogata Kōrin and Ogata Kenzan—Rinpa school artists Torii Kiyonobu, Hishikawa Moronobu, Miyagawa Chōshun—ukiyo-e artists Matsuo Bashō—Haiku poet See also Genroku culture Notes References Hammer, Joshua. (2006). Yokohama Burning: The Deadly 1923 Earthquake and Fire that Helped Forge the Path to World War II. New York: Simon & Schuster. ; OCLC 67774380 Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ; OCLC 48943301 Screech, Timon. (2006). Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779–1822. London: RoutledgeCurzon. ; OCLC 65177072 Smith, Robert John and Richard K. Beardsley. (2004). Japanese Culture: Its Development And Characteristics. London: Routledge. Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Nihon Ōdai Ichiran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC 5850691. Traganeou, Jilly. (2004). The Metaphorical Road of the Tōkaid: Traveling and Representation in Edo and Meiji Japan. London: RoutledgeCurzon. ; OCLC 52347509 External links National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection New York Public Library Digital Gallery,