Year in Japan

1120 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Hōan 保安 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Hōan 保安 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from April 1120 to April 1124

Reading the year 1120 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1120 corresponds to Hōan 保安 (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 1120年 (1120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.