Year in Japan
1586 in Japanese History
8 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 14 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Jan 18 1586 Tenshō earthquake 天正地震 · Earthquake — Earthquake in Japan
- Asano Nagaakira 浅野長晟 · Samurai — daimyo
- Tsugaru Nobuhira 津軽信枚 · Samurai — Japanese Daimyo (1586-1631)
- Hachisuka Yoshishige 蜂須賀至鎮 · Samurai — Daimyo who ruled the Tokushima Domain (1586-1620)
- Hosokawa Tadatoshi 細川忠利 · Samurai — daimyo who ruled the Kumamoto Domain
- Itakura Shigemune 板倉重宗 · Samurai — Japanese Daimyo
- Arima Naozumi 有馬直純 · Samurai — samurai
- Ikoma Masatoshi 生駒正俊 · Samurai — Japanese samurai
Reading the year 1586 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1586 corresponds to Tenshō 天正 (year 14 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 1586年 (1586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.