Year in Japan

1469 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Bunmei 文明 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Bunmei 文明 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from April 1469 to July 1487
Kanayama Castle 新田金山城 · Castle — building in Ota, Gunma Prefecture, Japan
Inuyama Castle 犬山城 · Castle — one of the 12 Japanese castles still in existence which were built before the Edo period

Reading the year 1469 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1469 corresponds to Bunmei 文明 (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 1469年 (1469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.