Events of the year 1616 in Japan.
Incumbents Monarch: Go-Mizunoo Shogun: Tokugawa Hidetada
Events May 15: Magistrate of Nagasaki Murayama Tōan sets sail to Taiwan in order to establish a base there.Frei, Henry P.,Japan's Southward Advance and Australia, Univ of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, ç1991. p.34 - "...ordered the Governor of Nagasaki, Murayama Toan, to invade Formosa with a fleet of thirteen vessels and around 4000 men. Only a hurricane thwarted this effort and forced their early return" June 1: Tokugawa Ieyasu dies at the age of seventy-three.Screech, Timon (2006). Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779–1822. London: RoutledgeCurzon. ISBN 0-7007-1720-X, pp. 85, 234; n.b. August 8: An edict of the shogunate restricts most foreigners, other than Chinese, from trading outside of the ports of Nagasaki and Hirado. Arano, Yasunori (2005). "The Formation of a Japanocentric World Order". International Journal of Asian Studies. 2 (2): 201. doi:10.1017/s1479591405000094. S2CID 145541884. October 10: Sakazaki Naomori of Tsuwano Domain fails to capture Senhime. October 21: Naomori commits suicide after failing to capture Senhime. Date unknown: The first embassy of the Ayutthaya Kingdom to Japan arrives.
Births January 1: Nabeshima Naozumi, daimyo of Hasunoike Domain (1639-1665) (d.1669) October 15: Hoshina Masakage, daimyo of Iino Domain (1661-1686) (d.1700)
Deaths June 1: Tokugawa Ieyasu, daimyo, samurai, general, and first shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate. (1603-1605) (b.1543) July 20: Honda Masanobu, commander and daimyo of Tamanawa Castle and Tamanawa Domain. (1590-1616) (b.1538) October 21: Sakazaki Naomori, daimyo of Tsuwano Domain (1601-1616) (b.1563) November 20: Matsumae Yoshihiro, daimyo of Matsumae Domain (1583-1616) (b.1548) date unknown: Shimozuma Chūkō, Buddhist monk of the Hongan-ji school. (b.1551)
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