Year in Japan

1503 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Bunki 文亀 (year 3 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Yūki Masakatsu 結城政勝 · Samurai — Japanese samurai and daimyo of the Sengoku period

Reading the year 1503 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1503 corresponds to Bunki 文亀 (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 1503年 (1503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.