Year in Japan
1585 in Japanese History
9 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 13 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Katakura Shigenaga 片倉重長 · Samurai — Japanese samurai
- Tozawa Masamori 戸沢政盛 · Samurai — Samurai of the clan of Tokugawa
- Sunpu Castle 駿府城 · Castle — Japanese castle located in Shizuoka
- Iga Ueno Castle 上野城 · Castle — fortification
- Inoue Masashige 井上政重 · Politician — daimyo of the early Edo period. Ometsuke of Tokugawa shogunate
- Honmyō-ji Temple 本妙寺 · Buddhist temple — Buddhist temple in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan
- Siege of Toyama 富山の役 · Siege — 1585 siege
- Wakayama Castle 和歌山城 · Castle — fortification
- Tokushima Castle 徳島城 · Castle — Japanese castle in Tokushima, Tokushima prefecture
Reading the year 1585 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1585 corresponds to Tenshō 天正 (year 13 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 1585年 (1585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.