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Events

 * The harvest fails for the third year in a row. Peasant revolts are crushed by Hida Tsuneo's forces.
 * Steel Magistrates expose in the Chokai province the Phoenix aid to the worst famine-stricken provinces, which is considered a treason to the Emperor.
 * The entirety of the Steel Magistrates and its leader are hanged accused of treason.
 * The dowager Empress Hantei Okucheo and her only surviving son actively began to conspire.

Deaths

 * Otomo Yurikan
 * Shosuro Tsia