1858 in Japan

← 1857 1856 1855 1858 in Japan → 1859 1860 1861
Decades:	1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s
See also:	Other events of 1858 History of Japan Timeline Years

Events in the year 1858 in Japan.

Incumbents

Events

• 9 April - 1858 Hietsu earthquake[1]
• Start of the Ansei Purge[2]

• Ichikawa Kumehachi make her stage debut as the first actress to appear on stage in Japan since actresses were banned in 1629.[3]

Incumbents

• Monarch: Kōmei

Births

• January 25 - Mikimoto Kōkichi (d. 1954), businessman

Deaths

References

1. Inoue K., Mizuyama T. & Sakatani Y. (2010). "The Catastrophic Tombi Landslide and Accompanying Landslide Dams Induced by the 1858 Hietsu Earthquake". Journal of Disaster Research. 5 (3): 245–256. doi:10.20965/jdr.2010.p0245.
2. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric (2002). Japan Encyclopedia. Harvard University Press. p. 33. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5.
3. Shiro, Okamoto (2001-04-01). The Man Who Saved Kabuki: Faubion Bowers and Theatre Censorship in Occupied Japan. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 12–13. ISBN 978-0-8248-2382-5.