Year in Japan

1588 in Japanese History

3 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 16 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Hoshina Masasada 保科正貞 · Samurai — daymyo who ruled the Iino Domain
Itakura Shigemasa 板倉重昌 · Samurai — Japanese Daimyo
Kappa-dera Temple 曹源寺 · Buddhist temple — Buddhist temple in Tokyo

Reading the year 1588 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1588 corresponds to Tenshō 天正 (year 16 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 1588年 (1588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.