Year in Japan
1532 in Japanese History
5 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Muromachi period (室町時代, 1336 – 1573).
Era name: Tenbun 天文 (year 1 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Tenbun 天文 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from July 1532 to October 1555
- Ōuchi Yoshinaga 大内義長 · Samurai — Japanese samurai
- Ōkubo Tadayo 大久保忠世 · Samurai — daimyo
- Hamamatsu Castle 浜松城 · Castle — fortification
- Nagoya Castle 名古屋城 · Castle — Japanese castle located in Nagoya, central Japan
Reading the year 1532 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1532 corresponds to Tenbun 天文 (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 1532年 (1532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.