Year in Japan

1138 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Hōen 保延 (year 4 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Hōjō Tokimasa 北条時政 · Politician — 1st Shikken of the Kamakura shogunate (1138-1215)
Taira no Shigemori 平重盛 · Samurai — eldest son of the Taira clan patriarch, Taira no Kiyomori

Reading the year 1138 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1138 corresponds to Hōen 保延 (year 4 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 1138年 (1138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.