Year in Japan
1659 in Japanese History
5 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Edo period (江戸時代, 1603 – 1868).
Era name: Manji 万治 (year 2 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Date Tsunamura 伊達綱村 · Samurai — daimyo who was at the center of the Date Sōdō
- Asano Tsunanaga 浅野綱長 · Samurai — Daimyo who ruled the Hiroshima Domain
- Ōishi Yoshio 大石良雄 · Samurai — Samurai; the leader of the Forty-seven Ronin
- Yamamoto Tsunetomo 山本常朝 · Philosopher — samurai (1659-1719)
- Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu 柳沢吉保 · Samurai — daimyo (1658-1714)
Reading the year 1659 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1659 corresponds to Manji 万治 (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 1659年 (1659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.