Year in Japan
1144 in Japanese History
2 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Heian period (平安時代, 794 – 1185).
Era name: Ten'yō 天養 (year 1 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Ten'yō 天養 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from February 1144 to July 1145
- Taira no Tadanori 平忠度 · Samurai — General in the Genpei War
Reading the year 1144 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1144 corresponds to Ten'yō 天養 (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 1144年 (1144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.