Year in Japan

1544 in Japanese History

4 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Muromachi period (室町時代, 1336 – 1573).

Era name: Tenbun 天文 (year 13 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Takenaka Shigeharu 竹中重治 · Samurai — Japanese samurai
Date Terumune 伊達輝宗 · Samurai — Daimyo of the Date clan of Mutsu Province
Numata Jakō 沼田麝香 · Samurai — Japanese noble lady of the Sengoku period
Sagara Yoshiharu 相良義陽 · Samurai — Daimyo who ruled a region in southern Higo Province

Reading the year 1544 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1544 corresponds to Tenbun 天文 (year 13 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 1544年 (1544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.