Year in Japan
1521 in Japanese History
5 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Muromachi period (室町時代, 1336 – 1573).
Era name: Daiei 大永 (year 1 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Daiei 大永 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from August 1521 to August 1528
- Takeda Shingen 武田信玄 · Samurai — Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period
- Sue Harukata 陶晴賢 · Samurai — samurai
- Rokkaku Yoshikata 六角義賢 · Samurai — daimyo
- Ashina Moriuji 蘆名盛氏 · Samurai — daimyo
Reading the year 1521 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1521 corresponds to Daiei 大永 (year 1 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 1521年 (1521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.