Year in Japan

1599 in Japanese History

1 recorded entry for this year. It falls in the Azuchi–Momoyama period (安土桃山時代, 1573 – 1603).

Era name: Keichō 慶長 (year 4 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Konoe Nobuhiro 近衛信尋 · Samurai — kugyō (1599–1649)

Reading the year 1599 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1599 corresponds to Keichō 慶長 (year 4 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 1599年 (1599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.