Year in Japan
1541 in Japanese History
5 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Muromachi period (室町時代, 1336 – 1573).
Era name: Tenbun 天文 (year 10 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Hatano Hideharu 波多野秀治 · Samurai — head of Japanese clan
- Abe Masakatsu 阿部正勝 · Samurai — Japanese samurai
- Aoki Kazunori 青木一矩 · Samurai — Japanese samurai
- Anayama Nobutada 穴山信君 · Samurai — Japanese samurai
- Mizuno Tadashige 水野忠重 · Samurai — samurai in the 16th-century Japan
Reading the year 1541 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1541 corresponds to Tenbun 天文 (year 10 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 1541年 (1541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.