Year in Japan
1594 in Japanese History
5 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Azuchi–Momoyama period (安土桃山時代, 1573 – 1603).
Era name: Bunroku 文禄 (year 3 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Maeda Toshitsune 前田利常 · Samurai — Japanese daimyo of the Edo period
- Sakai Tadakatsu 酒井忠勝 · Samurai — daimyo of the early Edo period; 1st lord of Shōnai
- Satomi Tadayoshi 里見忠義 · Samurai — daimyo of the early Edo period
- Maeda Toshitaka 前田利孝 · Samurai — Japanese daimyo of the early Edo period
- Renkō-ji Temple 蓮光寺 · Buddhist temple — Buddhist temple in Tokyo, Japan
Reading the year 1594 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1594 corresponds to Bunroku 文禄 (year 3 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 1594年 (1594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.