Year in Japan

1528 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Kyōroku 享禄 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Kyōroku 享禄 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from August 1528 to July 1532
Takeda Nobukado 武田信廉 · Painter — Samurai commander of the late Sengoku period (1529-1582)
Maeno Nagayasu 前野長康 · Samurai — samurai

Reading the year 1528 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1528 corresponds to Kyōroku 享禄 (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 1528年 (1528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.