Year in Japan
1562 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 5 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Katō Kiyomasa 加藤清正 · Samurai — 16th-century Japanese daimyo (1562-1611)
- Hōjō Ujinao 北条氏直 · Samurai — Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period
- Maeda Toshinaga 前田利長 · Samurai — Japanese daimyo (1562-1614)
- Tsutsui Sadatsugu 筒井定次 · Samurai — samurai
- Kurushima Michifusa 来島通総 · Samurai — samurai
- Kasuya Takenori 糟屋武則 · Samurai — daimyo
- Natsuka Masaie 長束正家 · Samurai — Daimyō
Reading the year 1562 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1562 corresponds to Eiroku 永禄 (year 5 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 1562年 (1562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.