List of fires in Kyoto

The list of fires in Kyoto encompasses an essential aspect of urban life in the Japanese capital.

In identifying this disaster as the "Great Nishijin fire," an unusual focus is directed towards the cloth weavers clustered in one part of Kyoto.

On August 3, 1730 (Kyōhō 15, 20th day of the 6th month), a fire broke out in Muromachi and 3,790 houses were burnt.

[6] The city of Kyoto was home to many cloth weavers, and the neighborhood in which this craft was centered was called Nishijin.

The Dutch VOC opperhoofd in Dejima noted in his official record book that "people are considering it to be a great and extraordinary heavenly portent.

"Battle scene from the Hamaguri Gate Incident of 1864, Kyoto, Japan", an 1893 ukiyo-e print by Yūzan Mori, based on a drawing by Gorei Maekawa.