Year in Japan

1428 in Japanese History

2 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Muromachi period (室町時代, 1336 – 1573).

Era name: Shōchō 正長 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Shōchō 正長 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from April 1428 to September 1429
Asakura Takakage 朝倉孝景 · Samurai — 7th head of Asakura clan. daimyo of the middle Muromachi period. a.k.a. Eirin

Reading the year 1428 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1428 corresponds to Shōchō 正長 (year 1 of the era). Years are written with 年 (ねん, nen) — so 1600 appears as 慶長5年, "the fifth year of Keichō".

The year itself is read 1428年 (1428ねん) in modern Japanese. Browse the full timeline to see where this year sits in the wider arc, or the 15th century for its neighbours.