Year in Japan
1555 in Japanese History
5 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Muromachi period (室町時代, 1336 – 1573).
Era name: Kōji 弘治 (year 1 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Oct 16 Battle of Miyajima 厳島の戦い · Battle — 1555 battle
- Kōji 弘治 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from October 1555 to February 1558
- Konishi Yukinaga 小西行長 · Samurai — Japanese daimyō who served Toyotomi Hideyoshi
- Matsudaira Ietada 松平家忠 · Writer — Japanese samurai (1555–1600)
- Ikoma Kazumasa 生駒一正 · Samurai — samurai who served the Oda clan
Reading the year 1555 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1555 corresponds to Kōji 弘治 (year 1 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 1555年 (1555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.