Year in Japan
1590 in Japanese History
6 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 18 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Ii Naotaka 井伊直孝 · Samurai — daimyo who served under the Tokugawa shogunate
- Yamada Nagamasa 山田長政 · Politician — Japanese explorer (1590-1630)
- Kamei Masanori 亀井政矩 · Samurai — daimyo (1590-1619)
- Ii Naokatsu 井伊直勝 · Samurai — Daimyō who served the Tokugawa clan
- Siege of Odawara 小田原征伐 · Siege — 1590
- Sakakibara Yasukatsu 榊原康勝 · Samurai — Daimyo who ruled Tatebayashi Domain
Reading the year 1590 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1590 corresponds to Tenshō 天正 (year 18 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 1590年 (1590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.