Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia · SITE OF MEMORY · 1782–88

Great Tenmei famine (1782–88)

On the Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia map as “The Tenmei famine”

1782–1788 — Cold summers and the eruption of Mount Asama in 1783 ruined harvests, with the north-east suffering most. Across Japan, hundreds of thousands died from hunger and disease. Domains hoarded rice for their own people, while the shogunate had no national machinery for moving food to those starving elsewhere.

When: 1782–1788
Type: Site of memory
Chapter: Tokugawa shogunate and sakoku (chapter 1 of Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia)
Atlas: Remaking the State: Meiji Japan 1600–1912 and Post-Soviet Russia 1964–2000

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Map showing Great Tenmei famine (1782–88), site of memory in Remaking the State: Meiji Japan 1600–1912 and Post-Soviet Russia 1964–2000 — SITE OF MEMORY · REMAKING THE STATE: MEIJI JAPAN 1600–1912 AND POST-SOVIET RUSSIA 1964–2000

These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Yamaguchi Prefecture: Hagi main domain and four branch domains · Cliopatria v0.2.1 dated political boundaries · Atlas chapter bibliography and event-specific source record · Edo Domains c.1862, v0.1 · Joint Japanese–Russian compendium of territorial treaties, 1855–1905 · Natural Earth v5.1.2 complete geographic reference · Natural Earth full administrative reference units · Natural Earth v5.1.2 disputed-area references · Natural Earth v5.1.2 Amur / Heilong Jiang river centreline · The World and Japan database: official historical treaties

Source details

Yamaguchi Prefecture cultural heritage service. Historical factual evidence; no map or prose copied
Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY 4.0
Maps of History, citing the scholarly bibliography in SOURCES.md. Historical factual reference; no copyrighted prose reproduced
iao (2025), using Rekihaku village-domain records and MAFF 2015 agricultural settlement geometry; upstream processing by yaoyue00085856. CC0 1.0 · Original EPSG:4326 village polygons dissolved per domain; source enclaves and holes retained. c.1862 is the closest dated reference for earlier chapters; village proxies are not cadastral surveys.
Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Japan and the Russian Federation. Official historical treaty facts
Natural Earth contributors. Public domain
Natural Earth contributors. Public domain
Natural Earth contributors. Public domain
Natural Earth contributors. Public domain
GRIPS / University of Tokyo. Historical official treaty facts; no translated prose copied

Domains in earlier years use the published c.1862 village reconstruction, the nearest available source. Tenryo and rebellion overlays are explicitly regional locators and do not claim cadastral or uniform held territory.

proxy: 1855 treaty extent; Natural Earth 5.1.2 coastline · reconstruction: 1842 · reconstruction: 1858 Treaty of Aigun · reconstruction: 1860 Treaty of Peking · reconstruction: Existing treaty/event date · reconstruction: Pre1879 geographic reference · reconstruction: Source coastline reference · reconstruction: c.1862 · reconstruction: c.1862 reference · vector: 1640–1859 · vector: 1783–1852 · vector: 1822–1855 · vector: 1824–1845 · vector: 1824–1852 · vector: 1828–1855 · vector: 1834–1858 · vector: 1840–1845 · vector: 1842–1845 · vector: 1842–1847 · vector: 1842–1852

Layer records and reconstruction methods