Year in Japan

1046 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Eishō 永承 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Eishō 永承 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from February 1046 to January 1053

Reading the year 1046 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1046 corresponds to Eishō 永承 (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 1046年 (1046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.