Year in Japan
1600 in Japanese History
8 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 5 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Sep 30 Battle of Gifu Castle 岐阜城の戦い · Battle — 1600 battle
- Oct 21 Battle of Sekigahara 関ヶ原の戦い · Battle — 1600 battle preceding Tokugawa shogunate in Japan
- Dec 26 Battle of Imafuku 今福の戦い · Battle — 1600 battle
- Date Tadamune 伊達忠宗 · Samurai — Daimyo of Sendai (1600-1658)
- Matsudaira Norinaga 松平乗寿 · Samurai — [松平乗寿] daimyo of Iwamura, Hamamatsu and Tatebayashi
- Siege of Fushimi 伏見城の戦い · Siege — 1600 A crucial battle in the series leading up to the decisive battle of Sekigahara which ended Japa
- Siege of Tanabe 田辺城の戦い · Siege — battle in Japan in 1600, part of the Sengoku period
- Kurume Castle 久留米城 · Castle — castle in Kurume, Fukuoka prefecture, Japan
Reading the year 1600 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1600 corresponds to Keichō 慶長 (year 5 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 1600年 (1600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.