Year in Japan

1016 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Chōwa 長和 (year 4 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Minamoto no Tsunenobu 源経信 · Writer — Japanese poet and writer

Reading the year 1016 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1016 corresponds to Chōwa 長和 (year 4 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 1016年 (1016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.