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distributed rice. The city of Kyoto was home to many cloth weavers, and the neighborhood in which this craft was centered was called Nishijin. The great fire of 1730 broke out not far from the Imperial Palace in the Nishijin neighborhood; and for this reason it was called the Great Nishijin fire.
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era (1716–1736), is also identified by the name of the area of Kyoto in which the blaze began. In identifying this disaster as the "Great Nishijin fire," an unusual focus is directed towards the cloth weavers clustered in one part of Kyoto. On August 3, 1730
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Although accidental fire were regular occurrences, some blazes were so devastating that they were afterwards identified as "great;" and these larger fires were more specifically identified by reference to the
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era (1781–1789), raged unchecked for several days. A fire in the city, which began at 3 o'clock in the morning of March 6, 1788 (
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noted in his official record book that "people are considering it to be a great and extraordinary heavenly portent."
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The Future and the Past, a translation and study of the Gukanshō, an interpretative history of Japan written in 1219
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of 1864, Kyoto, Japan", an 1893 ukiyo-e print by Yūzan Mori, based on a drawing by Gorei Maekawa.
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in which the blaze occurred; as in what came to be known as "the Great Hoei Fire" of 1708.
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Fires other than the major ones are also identified by the Japanese era name or
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Le Japon à l'exposition universelle de 1878. Géographie et histoire du Japon
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Kyoto: Its History and Vicissitudes Since its Foundation in 792 to 1868.
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Kyoto; its History and Vicissitudes Since its Foundation in 792 to 1868,
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encompasses an essential aspect of urban life in the Japanese capital.
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Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822.
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Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822,
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Old Kyoto: a guide to traditional shops, restaurants, and inns,
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Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland
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(1931). 98:Tenmei 8, 29th day of the 1st month 78:Kyōhō 15, 20th day of the 6th month 623:Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society. 609:Kyoto: Ponsonby Memorial Society. 106:Tenmei 8, 4th day of the 2nd month 102:Tenmei 8, 1st day of the 2nd month 25: 295:Genna 6, 4th day of the 3rd month 183:in which the disaster developed. 470:Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1931). 355:Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1956). 62:Hōei 5, 8th day of the 3rd month 666:Annales des empereurs du Japon. 344:Annales des empereurs du japon, 576:University of California Press 173:Select list of municipal fires 1: 259:1, 28th day of the 4th month 223:3, 22nd day of the 11th month 678:Imprimerie Royale de France, 621:The Imperial House of Japan. 285:6, 30th day of the 2nd month 210:2, 11th day of the 5th month 163:1, 19th day of the 7th month 728:Japan history-related lists 287:): A severe fire in Kyoto. 754: 595:Hong Kong: Rumford Press. 185: 18:List of Kyoto's fires 431:(in French). p. 139. 368:Kyoto City Web (京都市情報館): 359:p. 404; Titsingh, p. 416. 342:Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). 441:Screech, Timon. (2006). 297:): More fires in Kyoto. 142:"Battle scene from the 147: 144:Hamaguri Gate Incident 29:list of fires in Kyoto 141: 619:__________. (1959). 605:__________. (1956). 192:adding missing items 698:List of Edo's fires 118:Matsudaira Sadanobu 723:Disasters in Kyoto 148: 664:, Isaac. 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Index

List of Kyoto's fires
Japanese era name
Great Hoei fire
Hoei
Great Kyōhō fire
Kyōhō
Great Tenmei fire
Tenmei
Tokugawa Ienari
senior councilor
Matsudaira Sadanobu
VOC
opperhoofd
Dejima

Hamaguri Gate Incident
Great Genji fire
Genji
Genji
Kinmon Incident
nengō
dynamic list
adding missing items
reliable sources
Ten'en
Tengen
Kyūan
Jishō
Kōan
Genna

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