Year in Japan

1439 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Eikyō 永享 (year 11 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Ashikaga Yoshimi 足利義視 · Samurai — brother of Shōgun Ashikaga Yoshimasa
Kujō Masatada 九条政忠 · Politician — kugyō

Reading the year 1439 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1439 corresponds to Eikyō 永享 (year 11 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 1439年 (1439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.