Year in Japan
1139 in Japanese History
3 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Heian period (平安時代, 794 – 1185).
Era name: Hōen 保延 (year 5 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Emperor Konoe 近衛天皇 · Politician — Emperor of Japan (1139–1155)
- Minamoto no Tametomo 源為朝 · Samurai — samurai who fought in the Hōgen Rebellion of 1156
- Jakuren 寂蓮 · Writer — Japanese poet
Reading the year 1139 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1139 corresponds to Hōen 保延 (year 5 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 1139年 (1139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.