47177 (community total) + 37 (my reviews) = 47214
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47214 (community total) + 123 (yesterday) + 104 (today) = 47441
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47 441 (Community) + 53 (my reviews) = 47 494
Yey !
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47494 (community total) + 20 (my reviews) = 47514
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47514 (community total) + 31 (my reviews) = 47545
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47545 + 12 = 47557
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47557 (community total) + 43 (my reviews) = 47600
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47600 (community total) + 22(my reviews) = 47622
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47622 (community total) + 32 (my reviews) = 47654
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47654 (community total) + 91 (my reviews) = 47745
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47745 (community total) + 52 (my reviews) = 47797
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47797 (community total) + 29 (my reviews) = 47,826
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47826 + 15 = 47841
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47841 + 18 = 47859
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47859 + 62 = 47921
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47859 (community total) + 32 (my reviews) = 47891
About 131 years in: ~1694 (looks like Vocab reviews are speeding things up!)
The げんろくEra started in 1688 and is known as something of a “Japanese renaissance”. After a long period of peace and prosperity, arts and culture would flourish. Despite Tokugawa Tsunayoshi’s banning of prostitution and large displays of wealth, urban culture thrived nonetheless. New entertainment areas were built, and various arts such as Kabuki theatre, pupper theatre, and Ukiyo-e became hugely popular. Brothels and teahouses also grew, with plenty of time and money being spent in the pleasure districts. Even farmers had money (rice) for leisure activities. Real money such as coins were being used more, and this period saw the minting of new coins, referred to as Genroku coinage. Later in 1697 there was the establishment of the Dojima Rice exchange in Osaka, which was essentially predecessor to a banking system. As rice was still the main currency in Japan (used for wages etc.), the Rice exchange system allowed the brokering of rice into coin. This would go through many changes over the next century, with some serious economic mistakes, but would ultimately take Japan into modern economics (in fact the Dojima Rice Exchange was only officially dissolved in 1939).
Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, with his strong Buddhist beliefs, introduced a number of Edicts on the Compassion for Living Things from the late 1690’s. This was to protect all living things, but he was particularly concerned about dogs. There was a large amount of stray and sick dogs around Edo, and so he built huge kennels to house them all, and attracted as many dogs as he could get people to round up for him to put in the kennels. They were all fed rice, beans and anchovies at the taxpayers’ expense. Apparently Edo stunk horribly at the time due to all the dogs, but such was the seriousness of the Edicts that citizens would be executed for harming a dog. All of this earnt Tsunayoshi the title of the ‘Dog Shogun’. Of course, there was also 2 more large fires in Edo during the Genroku Era!
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47_891 + 29 = 47_920
school holidays and relative’s visiting is not conducive to successful studying!
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47920 (community total) + 19 (my reviews) = 47939
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47939 (community total) + 33 (my reviews) = 47 972
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47972 (community total) + 27 (my reviews) = 47999
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