Year in Japan

1549 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 18 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Miyoshi Yoshitsugu 三好義継 · Samurai — samurai of the Sengoku period
Tsutsui Junkei 筒井順慶 · Samurai — Japanese Daimyo (1549-1584)
Atagi Nobuyasu 安宅信康 · Samurai — Japanese samurai
Oniniwa Tsunamoto 鬼庭綱元 · Samurai — Japanese samurai

Reading the year 1549 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1549 corresponds to Tenbun 天文 (year 18 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 1549年 (1549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.