Year in Japan

1554 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 23 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Jul 4 Battle of Oshikibata 折敷畑の戦い · Battle — 1554 battle
Kani Saizō 可児吉長 · Samurai — samurai
Sakuma Morimasa 佐久間盛政 · Samurai — retainer and one of the top generals of Shibata Katsuie
Wakizaka Yasuharu 脇坂安治 · Samurai — Japanese Daimyo
Honda Yasushige 本多康重 · Samurai — samurai

Reading the year 1554 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1554 corresponds to Tenbun 天文 (year 23 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 1554年 (1554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.