Year in Japan

1492 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Meiō 明応 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Meiō 明応 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from July 1492 to February 1501
Mōri Okimoto 毛利興元 · Samurai — Kokujin ryoshu (local samurai lord).
Hirate Masahide 平手政秀 · Samurai — samurai
Takanashi Sumiyori 高梨澄頼 · Samurai — samurai of the Sengoku period

Reading the year 1492 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1492 corresponds to Meiō 明応 (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 1492年 (1492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.