Year in Japan

1053 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Tengi 天喜 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Tengi 天喜 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from January 1053 to August 1058
Toba Sōjō 覚猷 · Painter — Japanese astronomer (1053-1140)

Reading the year 1053 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1053 corresponds to Tengi 天喜 (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 1053年 (1053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.