Year in Japan

1104 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Chōji 長治 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Chōji 長治 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from February 1104 to April 1106
Kiyosuke Fujiwara 藤原清輔 · Writer — Japanese waka poet and poetry scholar

Reading the year 1104 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1104 corresponds to Chōji 長治 (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 1104年 (1104ねん) in modern Japanese. Browse the full timeline to see where this year sits in the wider arc, or the 12th century for its neighbours.