Year in Japan
1536 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 5 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi 豊臣秀吉 · Politician — Japanese samurai and daimyo (1537–1598)
- Ashikaga Yoshiteru 足利義輝 · Samurai — 13th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate
- Sassa Narimasa 佐々成政 · Samurai — daimyo
- Ikeda Tsuneoki 池田恒興 · Samurai — daimyo
- Konoe Sakihisa 近衛前久 · Politician — Japanese noble (1536-1612)
- Asakura Kagetake 朝倉景健 · Samurai — samurai of the Sengoku period
- Rinzai-ji Temple 臨済寺 · Buddhist temple — Buddhist temple in Aoiku-ku, Shizuoka
Reading the year 1536 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1536 corresponds to Tenbun 天文 (year 5 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 1536年 (1536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.