Year in Japan

1508 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Eishō 永正 (year 5 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Matsunaga Hisahide 松永久秀 · Samurai — daimyo

Reading the year 1508 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1508 corresponds to Eishō 永正 (year 5 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 1508年 (1508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.