Year in Japan

1487 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Chōkyō 長享 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Chōkyō 長享 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from July 1487 to August 1489
Hōjō Ujitsuna 北条氏綱 · Samurai — Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period

Reading the year 1487 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1487 corresponds to Chōkyō 長享 (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 1487年 (1487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.