Year in Japan

1491 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Entoku 延徳 (year 3 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Obata Toramori 小畠虎盛 · Samurai — Japanese samurai warrior

Reading the year 1491 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1491 corresponds to Entoku 延徳 (year 3 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 1491年 (1491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.