Year in Japan
1564 in Japanese History
3 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Muromachi period (室町時代, 1336 – 1573).
Era name: Eiroku 永禄 (year 7 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Jan 15 Battle of Azukizaka 小豆坂の戦い · Battle — battle that took place on January 15, 1564, when Matsudaira Motoyasu (later renamed Tokugawa Ieyasu)
- Mizuno Katsushige 水野勝成 · Samurai — daimyo
- Seki Kazumasa 関一政 · Samurai — daimyo
Reading the year 1564 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1564 corresponds to Eiroku 永禄 (year 7 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 1564年 (1564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.