Year in Japan

1037 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Chōryaku 長暦 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Chōryaku 長暦 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from 1037 to 1040
Suō no Naishi 周防内侍 · Writer — Japanese poet

Reading the year 1037 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1037 corresponds to Chōryaku 長暦 (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 1037年 (1037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.