Year in Japan
1582 in Japanese History
6 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 10 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Apr 3 Battle of Tenmokuzan 天目山の戦い · Battle — 1582 battle of Tenmokuzan (天目山の戦い, Tenmokuzan no Tatakai) in Japan, also known as the Battle of Tori
- Jun 21 Honnō-ji Incident 本能寺の変 · Military campaign — forced suicide of Oda Nobunaga at the hands of traitor Akechi Mitsuhide
- Jul 2 Battle of Yamazaki 山崎の戦い · Battle — 1582 battle between the forces of Akechi Mitsuhide and Toyotomi Hideyoshi
- Honda Tadatomo 本多忠朝 · Samurai — [本多忠朝] Daimyo in the early Edo period; lord of Otaki
- Matsui Okinaga 松井興長 · Samurai — samurai who served the Hosokawa clan
- Siege of Takamatsu 備中高松城の戦い · Siege — 1582 siege of a castle in Japan
Reading the year 1582 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1582 corresponds to Tenshō 天正 (year 10 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 1582年 (1582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.