Year in Japan
1558 in Japanese History
11 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Muromachi period (室町時代, 1336 – 1573).
Era name: Eiroku 永禄 (year 1 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Eiroku 永禄 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from February 1558 to April 1570
- Mori Nagayoshi 森長可 · Samurai — officer under the Oda clan following Japan's 16th-century Sengoku period
- Oda Nobutaka 織田信孝 · Samurai — samurai and member of Oda clan, third son of Oda Nobunaga
- Oda Nobukatsu 織田信雄 · Samurai — Japanese samurai of the Azuchi-Momoyama period
- Bessho Nagaharu 別所長治 · Samurai — daimyo
- Hachisuka Iemasa 蜂須賀家政 · Samurai — daimyo
- Tsu Castle 津城 · Castle — Japanese castle in Tsu, Mie prefecture
- Honami Kōetsu 本阿弥光悦 · Painter — Japanese painter and calligrapher; (1558-1637)
- Ōtomo Yoshimune 大友義統 · Samurai — Japanese military personnel
- Kabayama Hisataka 樺山久高 · Samurai — Japanese samurai
- Sannohe Castle 三戸城 · Castle — Japanese castle
Reading the year 1558 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1558 corresponds to Eiroku 永禄 (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 1558年 (1558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.