Year in Japan
1538 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 7 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Ashikaga Yoshihide 足利義栄 · Samurai — 14th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate
- Hōjō Ujimasa 北条氏政 · Samurai — Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period
- Nabeshima Naoshige 鍋島直茂 · Samurai — daimyo
- Maeda Toshiie 前田利家 · Samurai — general of Oda Nobunaga following the Sengoku period
- Takeda Yoshinobu 武田義信 · Samurai — Japanese daimyo
- Honda Masanobu 本多正信 · Samurai — Military commander and daimyo in the service of Tokugawa Ieyasu
- Imagawa Ujizane 今川氏真 · Writer — Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period
- Shinjo Naoyori 新庄直頼 · Samurai — Japanese samurai
Reading the year 1538 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1538 corresponds to Tenbun 天文 (year 7 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 1538年 (1538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.