Year in Japan

1446 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Bun'an 文安 (year 3 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Ōuchi Masahiro 大内政弘 · Samurai — daimyo of the Muromachi peroiod

Reading the year 1446 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1446 corresponds to Bun'an 文安 (year 3 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 1446年 (1446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.