Year in Japan

1511 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Eishō 永正 (year 8 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Ashikaga Yoshiharu 足利義晴 · Samurai — 12th shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate of Japan (1521–1546)
Matsudaira Kiyoyasu 松平清康 · Samurai — 7th head of Matsudaira clan in the Sengoku period; grandfather of Tokugawa Ieyasu
Suzuki Shigeoki 鈴木重意 · Samurai — Leader of the Saika Ikki
Oda Nobuhide 織田信秀 · Samurai — a warlord and magistrate of lower Owari Province during the Sengoku period of Japan

Reading the year 1511 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1511 corresponds to Eishō 永正 (year 8 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 1511年 (1511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.