Year in Japan
1533 in Japanese History
7 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Muromachi period (室町時代, 1336 – 1573).
Era name: Tenbun 天文 (year 2 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Shimazu Yoshihisa 島津義久 · Samurai — daimyo of Satsuma province
- Asakura Yoshikage 朝倉義景 · Politician — daimyo of the sengoku period; 11th head of Asakura clan (1533-1573)
- Kaihō Yūshō 海北友松 · Painter — Japanese painter (1533-1615)
- Ishikawa Kazumasa 石川数正 · Samurai — samurai
- Kobayakawa Takakage 小早川隆景 · Samurai — samurai
- Maeda Toshimasu 前田利益 · Samurai — Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period
- Ōmura Sumitada 大村純忠 · Samurai — Japanese Catholic daimyo of the 16th century CE
Reading the year 1533 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1533 corresponds to Tenbun 天文 (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 1533年 (1533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.