Year in Japan
1571 in Japanese History
10 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Muromachi period (室町時代, 1336 – 1573).
Era name: Genki 元亀 (year 2 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Sep 29 Siege of Mount Hiei 比叡山焼き討ち · Siege — 1571 battle in Japan
- Hasekura Tsunenaga 支倉常長 · Samurai — Japanese samurai and diplomat
- Go-Yōzei 後陽成天皇 · Politician — emperor of Japan from 1586 to 1611
- Niwa Nagashige 丹羽長重 · Samurai — daimyo
- Kanō Takanobu 狩野孝信 · Painter — Japanese painter (1571–1618)
- Matsunaga Teitoku 松永貞徳 · Writer — Japanese poet
- Yagyū Munenori 柳生宗矩 · Politician — samurai and daimyo of the early Edo period (1571-1646)
- Inaba Masanari 稲葉正成 · Samurai — samurai
- Matsura Hisanobu 松浦久信 · Samurai — daimyo from the Azuchi-Momoyama period to the early Edo period; 2nd lord of Hirado
- Hachiōji Castle 八王子城 · Castle — building in Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan
Reading the year 1571 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1571 corresponds to Genki 元亀 (year 2 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 1571年 (1571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.