Year in Japan
1559 in Japanese History
6 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Muromachi period (室町時代, 1336 – 1573).
Era name: Eiroku 永禄 (year 2 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Ishida Mitsunari 石田三成 · Samurai — samurai who led the Western army in the Battle of Sekigahara
- Ōtani Yoshitsugu 大谷吉継 · Samurai — daimyo
- Toku-hime 徳姫 · Samurai — [徳姫] daughter of Oda Nobunaga; wife of Matsudaira Nobuyasu
- Matsudaira Nobuyasu 松平信康 · Samurai — [松平信康] son of Tokugawa Ieyasu
- Kanō Sanraku 狩野山楽 · Painter — painter (1559-1635)
- Hirano Nagayasu 平野長泰 · Samurai — Japanese samurai
Reading the year 1559 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1559 corresponds to Eiroku 永禄 (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 1559年 (1559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.