Year in Japan
1118 in Japanese History
3 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Heian period (平安時代, 794 – 1185).
Era name: Gen'ei 元永 (year 1 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Gen'ei 元永 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from April 1118 to April 1120
- Taira no Kiyomori 平清盛 · Politician — Japanese samurai (1118–1181)
- Saigyō 西行 · Writer — Japanese poet
Reading the year 1118 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1118 corresponds to Gen'ei 元永 (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 1118年 (1118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.