Ueda Akinari Timeline
- 1755 Published first haikai at the age of 21.
- 1760 Married Ueyama Tama
- 1761 Adoptive father died.
- 1766 Published Worldly Monkeys with Ears for the Arts (Shodō kikimimi sekenzaru).
- 1767 Published Characters of Worldly Mistresses (Seken Tekake Katagi)
- 1771 The family oil and paper business was destroyed in a fire.
- 1776 Published Ugetsu Monogatari. Began to practice medicine.
- 1788 Retired from medicine and devoted himself full time to writing and scholarship.
- 1797 Wife died. He suffered from temporary blindness.
- 1802 Oldest extant versions of “The Bloodstained Robe” and “The Celestial Maidens”, the first two stories of Harusame monogatari (Tales of the Spring Rain).
- 1808 Published Tandai shōshin roku (Notes Bold Yet Pithy).
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