Year in Japan

1056 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Tengi 天喜 (year 4 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Fujiwara no Kiyohira 藤原清衡 · Samurai — Samurai and founder of the Hiraizumi or Northern Fujiwara dynasty

Reading the year 1056 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1056 corresponds to Tengi 天喜 (year 4 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 1056年 (1056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.