67604 (community total) + 71 (my reviews) + 67,675
The books I bought have taught me how much vocab I don’t know. Mr. Anki is getting very filled up now
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67675 (community total) + 7489 (my reviews) = 75,164
This is my review count for Feb 7 - March 4. Probably really inflated it by dumping the entire N5 vocab deck into my reviews as well, which was probably a bit of a mistake.
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75,164 (community total) + 140(my reviews) = 75,304
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75,304 (community total) + 12 (my reviews) = 75,316
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75,316 (community total) + 40 (my reviews) = 75,356
About 206 years in: 1769
Huge bump in years since the last post, though major events are a little sparse at this point mid-Edo period, and are mostly political economical : So we have been through 2 more successions of Tokugawa Shoguns. In 1745 Tokugawa Yoshimune retired and took the title of 大御所 (おおごしょ), the same title Tokugawa Ieyasu took when he retired. Yoshimune’s first son Tokugawa Ieshige became the 9th Shogun, which was a controversial choice at the time due to his chronic poor health and severe speech impediment. Yoshimune was still directly involved in Shogun affairs to help his heir until he died in 1751. Ieshige was completely uninterested in running the government and left matters to a senior member of the Board of Chamberlains. The Tokugawa rule is said to have weakened over his short rule due to the poor handling of a number of issues and natural disasters (famine and floods) that affected the country. In entertainment news: the very first public show depicting the story of the 47 Ronin was an 11 act puppet play which started in 1748! Ieshige only ruled until 1760 when he retired and passed on the Shogunate to his first son Tokugawa Ieharu.
More disasters follow Ieharu’s rule. In 1770 the new Imperial Palace in Kyoto was destroyed by a typhoon, and in 1772 the Great Meiwa Fire occurred, which is one of three massive fire events in Edo city. Over 6000 people died and around 12,000 buildings including residences, merchant buildings, temples, and Daimyo residences were destroyed. Ash and cinders were pushed up to 24km away. Other floods, storms and famines are recorded over the time of Ieharu’s rule. These natural events are amplified in significance due to the high population density of many large cities now, as well as the general design of cities with all wooden, low set, cramped buildings.Early on in his time there was also a movement by the 公家 (くげ) to try to return power to the Imperial court. The くげ were a high class of officials that arose during the Kamakura shogunate (before the Sengoku/Warring states period). They lost all political power and influence to the Bushi, and every now and then tried to start a movement to return what they had. Particularly in the Edo period they thought they could get some success, as there was still small pockets of Anti-Shogunate sentiment, but these uprising were squashed fairly quickly
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75,356 (community total) + 102 (my reviews) = 75,458
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75458 (community total) + 10 (my reviews) = 75468
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75468 (community total) + 30 (my reviews) = 75498
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75_498 + 10 = 75_508
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75_508 + 30 = 75_538
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75538 (community total) + 33 (my reviews) = 75571
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75571(community total) + 64 (mz reviews)= 75635
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75635 (community total) + 6 (my reviews) = 75641
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75641 (community total) + 25 (my reviews) = 75666
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75666 (community total) + 12 (my reviews) = 75678
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75678 (community total) + 86 (my reviews) = 75764
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75764 (community total) + 54 (my reviews) = 75818
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75818 (community total) + 53 (my reviews) = 75871
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75871 (community total) + 16 (my reviews) = 75887
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