Year in Japan
1550 in Japanese History
5 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Muromachi period (室町時代, 1336 – 1573).
Era name: Tenbun 天文 (year 19 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Otazu no kata お田鶴の方 · Samurai — Japanese Samurai woman
- Sieges of Toishi 砥石崩れ · Siege — 1550 siege
- Tsugaru Tamenobu 津軽為信 · Samurai — Japanese Daimyo
- Ina Tadatsugu 伊奈忠次 · Samurai — samurai
- Ishida Masatsugu 石田正継 · Samurai — samurai
Reading the year 1550 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1550 corresponds to Tenbun 天文 (year 19 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 1550年 (1550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.