Year in Japan

1444 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Bun'an 文安 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Bun'an 文安 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from February 1444 to July 1449
Konoe Masaie 近衛政家 · Politician — kugyō and kampaku (1444-1505)

Reading the year 1444 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1444 corresponds to Bun'an 文安 (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 1444年 (1444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.