Year in Japan

1529 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Kyōroku 享禄 (year 2 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Matsura Takanobu 松浦隆信 · Samurai — daimyo of the Sengoku period. a.k.a. Dōka
Ukita Naoie 宇喜多直家 · Samurai — Daimyo of the Sengoku period
Ryūzōji Takanobu 龍造寺隆信 · Samurai — daimyo (1529-1584)
Honda Shigetsugu 本多重次 · Samurai — samurai
Soma Moritane 相馬盛胤 (十五代当主) · Samurai — daimyo

Reading the year 1529 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1529 corresponds to Kyōroku 享禄 (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 1529年 (1529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.