Year in Japan
1596 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: Keichō 慶長 (year 1 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Sep 5 1596 Fushimi earthquake 慶長伏見地震 · Natural disaster — earthquake in Japan
- Keichō 慶長 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from December 1596 to September 1615
- Honda Tadatoki 本多忠刻 · Samurai — daimyo (1596-1626)
- Ogasawara Tadazane 小笠原忠真 · Samurai — daimyo (1596-1667)
- Matsudaira Nobutsuna 松平信綱 · Samurai — [松平信綱] Roju of Tokugawa shogunate; daimyo of Kawagoe
- Horio Tadaharu 堀尾忠晴 · Samurai — Leader of the Matsue clan
Reading the year 1596 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1596 corresponds to Keichō 慶長 (year 1 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 1596年 (1596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.