Year in Japan

1551 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Tenbun 天文 (year 20 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Mōri Motokiyo 穂井田元清 · Samurai — samurai
Aoyama Tadanari 青山忠成 · Samurai — daimyo
Tainei-ji incident 大寧寺の変 · Battle — coup attempt in 1551 in Japan

Reading the year 1551 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1551 corresponds to Tenbun 天文 (year 20 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 1551年 (1551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.