Year in Japan

1121 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 2 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Kojijū 待宵の小侍従 · Writer — waka poet and Japanese noblewoman active in the late Heian period

Reading the year 1121 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1121 corresponds to Hōan 保安 (year 2 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 1121年 (1121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.