Events in the year 1546 in
Japan
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Incumbents
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Monarch
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Go-Nara
Deaths
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Azai Sukemasa
was the head of the Azai clan. Sukemasa was a retainer of the Kyōgoku clan but when the Kyōgoku clan declined for conflicts over the succession, the Azai clan came to power with Sukemasa as its daimyō.
After Sukemasa died, his son Azai Hisam ...
(b. 1491), daimyō
References
1540s in Japan
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
Years of the 16th century in Japan
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