Year in Japan
1552 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 21 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Sengoku Hidehisa 仙石秀久 · Samurai — daimyo
- Uesugi Kagetora 上杉景虎 · Samurai — samurai of the Sengoku period; son of Hōjō Ujiyasu, adopted by Uesugi Kenshin.
- Justo Takayama 高山右近 · Samurai — Japanese catholic daimyo, martyr and blessed
Reading the year 1552 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1552 corresponds to Tenbun 天文 (year 21 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 1552年 (1552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.