Year in Japan

1442 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Kakitsu 嘉吉 (year 2 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Toyokawa Inari 豊川稲荷 · Buddhist temple — Buddhist temple in Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan
Toki Shigeyori 土岐成頼 · Samurai — Leading military commander during the Muromachi period in Mino Province

Reading the year 1442 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1442 corresponds to Kakitsu 嘉吉 (year 2 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 1442年 (1442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.