Year in Japan

1084 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Ōtoku 応徳 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Ōtoku 応徳 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from February 1084 to April 1087

Reading the year 1084 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1084 corresponds to Ōtoku 応徳 (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 1084年 (1084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.