Year in Japan

1580 in Japanese History

4 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 8 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Oda Hidenobu 織田秀信 · Samurai — the son of Oda Nobutada and lived during the Azuchi-Momoyama period in the late-16th century
Nabeshima Katsushige 鍋島勝茂 · Samurai — daimyo
Matsudaira Tadayoshi 松平忠吉 · Samurai — [松平忠吉] son of Tokugawa Ieyasu
Okudaira Tadamasa 奥平忠政 · Samurai — daimyo

Reading the year 1580 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1580 corresponds to Tenshō 天正 (year 8 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 1580年 (1580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.