Year in Japan
1534 in Japanese History
8 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Muromachi period (室町時代, 1336 – 1573).
Era name: Tenbun 天文 (year 3 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Hosokawa Fujitaka 細川藤孝 · Writer — daimyo
- Oda Ujiharu 小田氏治 · Samurai — Japanese warlord
- Yūki Harutomo 結城晴朝 · Samurai — Japanese Daimyo
- Saitō Toshimitsu 斎藤利三 · Samurai — samurai
- Gamō Katahide 蒲生賢秀 · Samurai — daimyo
- Obata Masamori 小幡昌盛 · Samurai — Japanese samurai warrior
- Hachiya Yoritaka 蜂屋頼隆 · Samurai — Samurai who served the Oda clan
- Suzuki Magoichi 鈴木孫一 · Samurai — Japanese samurai
Reading the year 1534 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1534 corresponds to Tenbun 天文 (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 1534年 (1534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.