Year in Japan

1617 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Genna 元和 (year 3 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Tosa Mitsuoki 土佐光起 · Painter — Japanese painter (1617–1691)
Itakura Shigenori 板倉重矩 · Samurai — daimyo
Kamei Koremasa 亀井茲政 · Samurai — daimyo
Maeda Toshitsugu 前田利次 · Samurai — Japanese daimyo of the early Edo period (1617-1674)

Reading the year 1617 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1617 corresponds to Genna 元和 (year 3 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 1617年 (1617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.