Year in Japan

1044 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Kantoku 寛徳 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Kantoku 寛徳 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from November 1044 to April 1046

Reading the year 1044 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1044 corresponds to Kantoku 寛徳 (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 1044年 (1044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.