Year in Japan

1597 in Japanese History

4 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 2 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Marugame Castle 丸亀城 · Castle — park
Inaba Masakatsu 稲葉正勝 · Samurai — Seventeenth century daimyō
Kanō Sadanobu 狩野貞信 · Painter — Japanese painter (1597-1623)
Takasaki Castle 高崎城 · Castle — building in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, Japan

Reading the year 1597 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1597 corresponds to Keichō 慶長 (year 2 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 1597年 (1597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.