Year in Japan
1501 in Japanese History
3 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Muromachi period (室町時代, 1336 – 1573).
Era name: Bunki 文亀 (year 1 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Bunki 文亀 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from February 1501 to February 1504
- Murakami Yoshikiyo 村上義清 · Samurai — daimyo
- Amakasu Kagemochi 甘粕景持 · Samurai — Japanese samurai
Reading the year 1501 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1501 corresponds to Bunki 文亀 (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 1501年 (1501ねん) in modern Japanese. Browse the full timeline to see where this year sits in the wider arc, or the 16th century for its neighbours.