Year in Japan

506 in Japanese History

1 recorded entry for this year. It falls in the Kofun period (古墳時代, 300 – 538).

What happened 出来事

Soga no Iname 蘇我稲目 · Politician — Japanese statesman (506-570)

Reading the year 506 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 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 506年 (506ねん) in modern Japanese. Browse the full timeline to see where this year sits in the wider arc, or the 6th century for its neighbours.