Year in Japan

1560 in Japanese History

5 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Muromachi period (室町時代, 1336 – 1573).

Era name: Eiroku 永禄 (year 3 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Jun 12 Battle of Okehazama 桶狭間の戦い · Battle — 1560 battle
Maeda Toshimasa 前田利春 · Samurai — Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period
Naoe Kanetsugu 直江兼続 · Samurai — Japanese samurai
Matsudaira Sadakatsu 松平定勝 · Samurai — [松平定勝] daimyo; half brother of Tokugawa Ieyasu
Ōkubo Tadataka 大久保忠教 · Samurai — Japanese warrior

Reading the year 1560 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1560 corresponds to Eiroku 永禄 (year 3 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 1560年 (1560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.