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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 Otomo Kaoichihime and the only surviving Emperor's brother actively begin to conspire.
== Deaths ==
* Otomo Yurikan
* Shosuro Tsia
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