Year in Japan

1572 in Japanese History

4 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Muromachi period (室町時代, 1336 – 1573).

Era name: Genki 元亀 (year 3 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Sakai Tadayo 酒井忠世 · Samurai — daimyo
Siege of Futamata 二俣城の戦い · Siege — 1572 siege
Ukita Hideie 宇喜多秀家 · Samurai — Daimyo of Bizen and Mimasaka provinces
Kyōgoku Takatomo 京極高知 · Samurai — daimyo of the Azuchi-Momoyama Period and the early Edo Period; 1st lord of Miyazu

Reading the year 1572 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1572 corresponds to Genki 元亀 (year 3 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 1572年 (1572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.