Events of the year 1651 in Japan.
Incumbents Monarch: Go-Kōmyō Shogun: Tokugawa Iemitsu until June 8, Tokugawa Ietsuna starting September 10.
Events June 8: Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu dies of a stroke aged forty-seven. September 10: Tokugawa Ietsuna succeeds his father as shogun. Date unknown: The Keian Uprising against the Tokugawa Shogunate fails.Sansom, George (1963). A History of Japan: 1615–1867. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
Births September 6: Aoyama Tadao, daimyo of Hamamatsu Domain (d.1685) September 16: Engelbert Kaempfer, German physician and traveler known for his expedition to Japan. (d.1716)
Deaths June 8: Tokugawa Iemitsu, samurai, daimyo, and third shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate (1623-1651) (b.1604) September 10: Yui Shōsetsu, rōnin and military scholer. (b.1605) September 24: Marubashi Chūya, rebel
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