Year in Japan

1131 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Tenshō 天承 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Tenshō 天承 · Japanese era name — Japanese era name of the Heian period, 1131-1132
Nakayama Tadachika 中山忠親 · Samurai — Japanese noble

Reading the year 1131 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1131 corresponds to Tenshō 天承 (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 1131年 (1131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.