Year in Japan

1473 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Bunmei 文明 (year 5 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Asakura Sadakage 朝倉貞景 (9代) · Samurai — 9th head of Asakura clan. daimyo of the Sengoku period
Arakida Moritake 荒木田守武 · Writer — Japanese poet

Reading the year 1473 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1473 corresponds to Bunmei 文明 (year 5 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 1473年 (1473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.