Year in Japan

1096 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Eichō 永長 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Eichō 永長 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from December 1096 to November 1097
Minamoto no Tameyoshi 源為義 · Samurai — Japanese samurai
Taira no Tadamori 平忠盛 · Samurai — Taira clan samurai and governor

Reading the year 1096 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1096 corresponds to Eichō 永長 (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 1096年 (1096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.