Year in Japan
1556 in Japanese History
6 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Muromachi period (室町時代, 1336 – 1573).
Era name: Kōji 弘治 (year 2 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Sep 27 Battle of Inō 稲生の戦い · Battle — 1556 battle in Japan
- Uesugi Kagekatsu 上杉景勝 · Samurai — daimyo during the Sengoku and Edo periods
- Tōdō Takatora 藤堂高虎 · Samurai — Japanese daimyo (1556-1630)
- Gamō Ujisato 蒲生氏郷 · Samurai — daimyo
- Katagiri Katsumoto 片桐且元 · Samurai — daimyo
- Nijō Akizane 二条昭実 · Samurai — Japanese noble
Reading the year 1556 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1556 corresponds to Kōji 弘治 (year 2 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 1556年 (1556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.