Year in Japan
1489 in Japanese History
6 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Muromachi period (室町時代, 1336 – 1573).
Era name: Entoku 延徳 (year 1 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Entoku 延徳 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from August 1489 to July 1492
- Hosokawa Sumimoto 細川澄元 · Samurai — Japanese samurai
- Usami Sadamitsu 宇佐美定満 · Samurai — Samurai of the Sengoku period
- Nagao Tamekage 長尾為景 · Samurai — Japanese feudal lord
- Tsukahara Bokuden 塚原卜伝 · Samurai — Japanese samurai
- Itagaki Nobukata 板垣信方 · Samurai — Japanese samurai
Reading the year 1489 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1489 corresponds to Entoku 延徳 (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 1489年 (1489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.