Year in Japan

1584 in Japanese History

2 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 12 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Sasaki Kojirō 佐々木小次郎 · Samurai — Japanese swordsman
Shōkadō Shōjō 松花堂昭乗 · Painter — Japanese calligrapher (1584-1639)

Reading the year 1584 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1584 corresponds to Tenshō 天正 (year 12 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 1584年 (1584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.