Year in Japan

1604 in Japanese History

4 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Edo period (江戸時代, 1603 – 1868).

Era name: Keichō 慶長 (year 9 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Tokugawa Iemitsu 徳川家光 · Politician — The third shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (1604–1651)
Aoyama Munetoshi 青山宗俊 · Samurai — daimyo
Torii Tadatsune 鳥居忠恒 · Samurai — Daimyo of Yamagata
Genkū-ji Temple 源空寺 · Buddhist temple — Japanese temple in Taito-ku, Tokyo

Reading the year 1604 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1604 corresponds to Keichō 慶長 (year 9 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 1604年 (1604ねん) in modern Japanese. Browse the full timeline to see where this year sits in the wider arc, or the 17th century for its neighbours.