Year in Japan
1434 in Japanese History
3 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Muromachi period (室町時代, 1336 – 1573).
Era name: Eikyō 永享 (year 6 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Ashikaga Yoshikatsu 足利義勝 · Samurai — The seventh shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate of Japan (1434-1443)
- Tosa Mitsunobu 土佐光信 · Painter — Japanese painter (1434–1525)
- Ashikaga Shigeuji 足利成氏 · Samurai — 1st Koga Kubō of the Ashikaga shogunate
Reading the year 1434 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1434 corresponds to Eikyō 永享 (year 6 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 1434年 (1434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.