Year in Japan
1527 in Japanese History
9 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Muromachi period (室町時代, 1336 – 1573).
Era name: Daiei 大永 (year 7 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Saitō Yoshitatsu 斎藤義龍 · Samurai — 16-century Japanese daimyo during the Senkoku period
- Sakuma Nobumori 佐久間信盛 · Samurai — Retainer for the Oda clan
- Miyoshi Yoshikata 三好義賢 · Samurai — samurai
- Sakai Tadatsugu 酒井忠次 · Samurai — daimyo
- Akiyama Nobutomo 秋山虎繁 · Samurai — samurai
- Kōsaka Masanobu 春日虎綱 · Samurai — Japanese Takeda retainer
- Nomi Munekatsu 乃美宗勝 · Samurai — samurai
- Kawajiri Hidetaka 河尻秀隆 · Samurai — samurai
- Saito Tomonobu 斎藤朝信 · Samurai — samurai
Reading the year 1527 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1527 corresponds to Daiei 大永 (year 7 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 1527年 (1527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.