Year in Japan

1522 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Daiei 大永 (year 2 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Miyoshi Nagayoshi 三好長慶 · Samurai — Japanese samurai and daimyo who was lord of the Miyoshi clan during the Sengoku period
Naitō Masatoyo 内藤昌豊 · Samurai — Japanese samurai

Reading the year 1522 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1522 corresponds to Daiei 大永 (year 2 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 1522年 (1522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.