Year in Japan

1620 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Genna 元和 (year 6 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Kusumi Morikage 久隅守景 · Painter — Japanese artist (1620-1690)
Hamada Castle 浜田城 · Castle — castle ruins in Hamada, Japan

Reading the year 1620 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1620 corresponds to Genna 元和 (year 6 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 1620年 (1620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.