Year in Japan
1537 in Japanese History
6 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Muromachi period (室町時代, 1336 – 1573).
Era name: Tenbun 天文 (year 6 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Ashikaga Yoshiaki 足利義昭 · Samurai — 15th shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate of Japan (1568–1573)
- Ōkubo Tadasuke 大久保忠佐 · Samurai — daimyo
- Katō Mitsuyasu 加藤光泰 · Samurai — daimyo
- Shimizu Muneharu 清水宗治 · Samurai — military commander
- Amano Yasukage 天野康景 · Samurai — daimyo
- Nagaoka Castle 長岡城 · Castle — Japanese castle located in Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture, Japan
Reading the year 1537 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1537 corresponds to Tenbun 天文 (year 6 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 1537年 (1537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.