Year in Japan

1017 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Kannin 寛仁 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Kannin 寛仁 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from 1017 to 1021

Reading the year 1017 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1017 corresponds to Kannin 寛仁 (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 1017年 (1017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.