Year in Japan

1140 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Hōen 保延 (year 6 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Kajiwara Kagetoki 梶原景時 · Samurai — samurai

Reading the year 1140 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1140 corresponds to Hōen 保延 (year 6 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 1140年 (1140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.