Year in Japan
1583 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 11 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Jun 11 Battle of Shizugatake 賤ヶ岳の戦い · Battle — 1583 battle in feudal Japan
- Hayashi Razan 林羅山 · Philosopher — Japanese philosopher (1583–1657)
- Takeda Nobuyoshi 武田信吉 · Samurai — son of Tokugawa Ieyasu. nominal successor of Takeda clan
- Gamō Hideyuki 蒲生秀行 · Samurai — daimyo of the Azuchi-Momoyama to Edo period. lord of Aizu domain
- Matsudaira Tadaaki 松平忠明 (奥平松平家) · Samurai — [松平忠明] daimyo of the early Edo period
- Osaka Castle 大坂城 · Castle — Japanese castle in Chūō-ku, Osaka, Japan
Reading the year 1583 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1583 corresponds to Tenshō 天正 (year 11 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 1583年 (1583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.