Year in Japan
1466 in Japanese History
3 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Muromachi period (室町時代, 1336 – 1573).
Era name: Bunshō 文正 (year 1 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Bunshō 文正 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from February 1466 to March 1467
- Ashikaga Yoshitane 足利義稙 · Samurai — Tenth shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate of Japan (1490–1493, 1508–1521)
- Hosokawa Masamoto 細川政元 · Samurai — daimyo
Reading the year 1466 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1466 corresponds to Bunshō 文正 (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 1466年 (1466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.