Year in Japan

1087 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Kanji 寛治 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Kanji 寛治 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from April 1087 to December 1094

Reading the year 1087 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1087 corresponds to Kanji 寛治 (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 1087年 (1087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.