Year in Japan
1106 in Japanese History
3 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Heian period (平安時代, 794 – 1185).
Era name: Kashō 嘉承 (year 1 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Kashō 嘉承 · Japanese era name — period of Japanese history (1106-1108 AD)
- Minamoto no Yorimasa 源頼政 · Writer — Japanese court noble, samurai and poet
- Fujiwara no Michinori 信西 · Writer — Japanese aristocrat, Confucian scholar and Buddhist monk in late Heian period
Reading the year 1106 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1106 corresponds to Kashō 嘉承 (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 1106年 (1106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.