Year in Japan
1543 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 12 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Tokugawa Ieyasu 徳川家康 · Samurai — founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (1543–1616)
- Kanō Eitoku 狩野永徳 · Painter — Japanese artist (1543-1590)
- Ichijō Kanesada 一条兼定 · Samurai — Daimyo of the Sengoku period
- Oda Nobukane 織田信包 · Samurai — Japanese samurai, the younger brother of the supremely famous warlord, Oda Nobunaga following the Se
- Kinoshita Iesada 木下家定 · Samurai — samurai
- Horio Yoshiharu 堀尾吉晴 · Samurai — Daimyo and first leader of the Matsue clan
Reading the year 1543 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1543 corresponds to Tenbun 天文 (year 12 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 1543年 (1543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.