Year in Japan
1546 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 15 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Mogami Yoshiaki 最上義光 · Samurai — daimyo of the Yamagata domain
- Kuroda Yoshitaka 黒田孝高 · Samurai — Japanese daimyo (1546 – 1604)
- Nene 高台院 · Politician — Japanese aristocratic lady (1546-1624)
- Nanbu Nobunao 南部信直 · Samurai — daimyo
- Chō Tsuratatsu 長連龍 · Samurai — samurai (1546-1619)
- Takeda Katsuyori 武田勝頼 · Samurai — daimyo
- Naitō Ienaga 内藤家長 · Samurai — samurai of the Sengoku period to Azuchi-Momoyama period
- Suzuki Shigehide 鈴木重秀 · Samurai — samurai
Reading the year 1546 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1546 corresponds to Tenbun 天文 (year 15 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 1546年 (1546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.