Year in Japan
1561 in Japanese History
7 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Muromachi period (室町時代, 1336 – 1573).
Era name: Eiroku 永禄 (year 4 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Fujiwara Seika 藤原惺窩 · Philosopher — philosopher (1561-1619)
- Kikkawa Hiroie 吉川広家 · Samurai — daimyo
- Fukushima Masanori 福島正則 · Samurai — daimyo who served as lord of the Hiroshima Domain
- Ii Naomasa 井伊直政 · Samurai — daimyō
- Hoshina Masamitsu 保科正光 · Samurai — Japanese daimyo of the Edo period
- Battle of Kawanakajima 第四次川中島の戦い · Battle — 1561 fourth battle of Kawanakajima
- Kaganoi Shigemochi 加賀井重望 · Samurai — samurai
Reading the year 1561 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1561 corresponds to Eiroku 永禄 (year 4 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 1561年 (1561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.