Year in Japan
1587 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 15 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Jan 20 Battle of Hetsugigawa 戸次川の戦い · Battle — 1587 battle
- Sakai Tadakatsu 酒井忠勝 · Samurai — daimyo of the early Edo period, Tairō of the Tokugawa shogunate; 1st lord of Obama
Reading the year 1587 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1587 corresponds to Tenshō 天正 (year 15 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 1587年 (1587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.