Year in Japan
1591 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 19 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Date Hidemune 伊達秀宗 · Samurai — daimyo
- Nishi Hongan-ji Temple 西本願寺 · Buddhist temple — Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan. Head temple of Honganji-ha school
Reading the year 1591 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1591 corresponds to Tenshō 天正 (year 19 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 1591年 (1591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.