Year in Japan

1517 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 14 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Hayashi Narinaga 林就長 · Samurai — samurai
Yasuda Nagahide 安田長秀 · Samurai — Sanurai

Reading the year 1517 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1517 corresponds to Eishō 永正 (year 14 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 1517年 (1517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.