Year in Japan
1577 in Japanese History
1 recorded entry for this year. It falls in the Azuchi–Momoyama period (安土桃山時代, 1573 – 1603).
Era name: Tenshō 天正 (year 5 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Kobayakawa Hideaki 小早川秀秋 · Samurai — fifth son of Kinoshita Iesada and the nephew of Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Reading the year 1577 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1577 corresponds to Tenshō 天正 (year 5 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 1577年 (1577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.