1573

Events in 1573 2

• 1336 – 1573 Muromachi period Ashikaga shoguns; Zen arts and growing chaos Under the Ashikaga shogunate based in Kyoto's Muromachi district, Japan saw the flowering of Zen-influenced arts — the tea ceremony, Noh theatre, ink painting and rock gardens. But central authority weakened, and the catastrophic Onin War (1467) tipped the country into the Sengoku age of civil war.
• 1573 – 1616 Johann Hermann Schein German Renaissance composer Johann Hermann Schein was a German composer who applied Italian madrigal and concerto techniques to German sacred and secular music, anticipating the Baroque style.