Year in Japan
1493 in Japanese History
3 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Muromachi period (室町時代, 1336 – 1573).
Era name: Meiō 明応 (year 2 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Yamamoto Kansuke 山本勘助 · Samurai — Samurai of the Sengoku period (1501–1561)
- Shimazu Tadayoshi 島津忠良 · Samurai — [島津忠良] daimyo of Satsuma Province during Japan's Sengoku period
- Mizuno Tadamasa 水野忠政 · Samurai — Japanese samurai
Reading the year 1493 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1493 corresponds to Meiō 明応 (year 2 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 1493年 (1493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.