Year in Japan

1004 in Japanese History

2 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Heian period (平安時代, 794 – 1185).

Era name: Kankō 寛弘 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Kankō 寛弘 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from 1004 to 1013
Minamoto no Takakuni 源隆国 · Writer — Japanese noble

Reading the year 1004 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1004 corresponds to Kankō 寛弘 (year 1 of the era). 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 1004年 (1004ねん) in modern Japanese. Browse the full timeline to see where this year sits in the wider arc, or the 11th century for its neighbours.