Year in Japan

1513 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Eishō 永正 (year 10 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Sagara Haruhiro 相良晴広 · Samurai — Daimyo who ruled a region in Higo Province (1513-1555)
Tachibana Dōsetsu 立花道雪 · Samurai — daimyo (1513-1585)

Reading the year 1513 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1513 corresponds to Eishō 永正 (year 10 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 1513年 (1513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.