Year in Japan

1568 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 11 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Kuroda Nagamasa 黒田長政 · Samurai — daimyo during the late Azuchi-Momoyama and Early Edo Period; 1st lord of Fukuoka
Toyotomi Hidetsugu 豊臣秀次 · Samurai — Japanese daimyō (1568–1595)
Sō Yoshitoshi 宗義智 · Samurai — daimyo
Date Shigezane 伊達成実 · Samurai — samurai
Matsudaira Yasushige 松平康重 · Samurai — daimyo
Hasegawa Kyūzō 長谷川久蔵 · Painter — Japanese painter (1568-1593)
Ono Otsū 小野お通 · Painter — Japanese calligrapher and poet from Sengoku period

Reading the year 1568 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1568 corresponds to Eiroku 永禄 (year 11 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 1568年 (1568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.