Year in Japan

550 in Japanese History

2 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Asuka period (飛鳥時代, 538 – 710).

What happened 出来事

Ōtomo no Kanamura 大伴金村 · Politician — Japanese warrior
Ōtomo no Satehiko 大伴狭手彦 · Military officer — Japanese soldier

Reading the year 550 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 550年 (550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.