Year in Japan

1547 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 16 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Satake Yoshishige 佐竹義重 · Samurai — daimyo
Oichi お市の方 · Politician — historical figure in the late Sengoku period (1547–1583)
Asano Nagamasa 浅野長政 · Samurai — brother-in-law of Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Sanada Masayuki 真田昌幸 · Samurai — daimyo

Reading the year 1547 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1547 corresponds to Tenbun 天文 (year 16 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 1547年 (1547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.