Year in Japan
1576 in Japanese History
5 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Azuchi–Momoyama period (安土桃山時代, 1573 – 1603).
Era name: Tenshō 天正 (year 4 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Nanbu Toshinao 南部利直 · Samurai — Daimyo who ruled the Morioka Domain
- Shimazu Tadatsune 島津忠恒 · Samurai — First Japanese to rule over the Ryūkyū Kingdom and lord of Satsuma
- Asano Yoshinaga 浅野幸長 · Samurai — daimyo
- Toda Ujikane 戸田氏鉄 · Samurai — Daimo who was vice-commander of the shogunate forces during the Shimabara Rebellion
- Akita Sanesue 秋田実季 · Samurai — daimyo
Reading the year 1576 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1576 corresponds to Tenshō 天正 (year 4 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 1576年 (1576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.