Year in Japan

1646 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Shōhō 正保 (year 2 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Tokugawa Tsunayoshi 徳川綱吉 · Samurai — The fifth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (1646-1709)
Tsugaru Nobumasa 津軽信政 · Samurai — Japanese Daimyo
Naitō Kiyokazu 内藤清枚 · Samurai — Daimyo who ruled the Takatō Domain
Torii Tadanori 鳥居忠則 · Samurai — Daimyo who ruled the Takatō Domain in Shinano Province

Reading the year 1646 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1646 corresponds to Shōhō 正保 (year 2 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 1646年 (1646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.