Year in Japan

1449 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Hōtoku 宝徳 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Hōtoku 宝徳 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from July 1449 to July 1452
Asakura Ujikage 朝倉氏景 (8代) · Samurai — 8th head of Asakura clan; daimyo of the Sengoku period

Reading the year 1449 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1449 corresponds to Hōtoku 宝徳 (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 1449年 (1449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.