Year in Japan
1630 in Japanese History
3 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Edo period (江戸時代, 1603 – 1868).
Era name: Kan'ei 寛永 (year 7 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Kaibara Ekken 貝原益軒 · Philosopher — Japanese Confucianist Philosopher, Pre-Linnaean botanist, physician (1630-1714)
- Hachisuka Mitsutaka 蜂須賀光隆 · Samurai — Daimyo who ruled the Tokushima Domain
- Ōta Suketsugu 太田資次 · Samurai — daimyo
Reading the year 1630 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1630 corresponds to Kan'ei 寛永 (year 7 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 1630年 (1630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.