Year in Japan
1539 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 8 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Hasegawa Tōhaku 長谷川等伯 · Painter — Japanese painter (1539-1610)
- Ankokuji Ekei 安国寺恵瓊 · Samurai — Diplomat of Mōri clan
- Torii Mototada 鳥居元忠 · Samurai — Samurai who served Tokugawa Ieyasu
- Chōsokabe Motochika 長宗我部元親 · Samurai — daimyo
- Maeda Gen'i 前田玄以 · Politician — daimyo
- Ichijō Nobutatsu 一条信龍 · Samurai — Samurai and one of the Twenty-Four Generals of Takeda Shingen
Reading the year 1539 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1539 corresponds to Tenbun 天文 (year 8 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 1539年 (1539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.