Year in Japan

1530 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Kyōroku 享禄 (year 3 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Uesugi Kenshin 上杉謙信 · Samurai — Japanese daimyo
Ōtomo Sōrin 大友義鎮 · Samurai — daimyo
Kikkawa Motoharu 吉川元春 · Samurai — daimyo (1530-1586)
Wada Koremasa 和田惟政 · Samurai — samurai

Reading the year 1530 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1530 corresponds to Kyōroku 享禄 (year 3 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 1530年 (1530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.