

1348 - Kusanoki Masatsura commits suicide at the battle of Shijōnawate. (Traditional Japanese Date: Fifth Day of the First Month, 1348); 1614 - Shimazu Iehisa of the Satsuma-han presents Japan's first gunship to the Shōgun (Traditional Japanese Date: Twenty-sixth Day of the Twelfth Month, 1613); 1703 - In Edo (now Tokyo), 46 of the Forty-seven Ronin commit seppuku.