Year in Japan

1083 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Eihō 永保 (year 3 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Gosannen War 後三年の役 · War — fought in the 1080s in Mutsu Province on the Japanese island of Honshū

Reading the year 1083 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1083 corresponds to Eihō 永保 (year 3 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 1083年 (1083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.