Year in Japan
1145 in Japanese History
3 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Heian period (平安時代, 794 – 1185).
Era name: Kyūan 久安 (year 1 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Kyūan 久安 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from July 1145 to January 1151
- Minamoto no Yukiie 源行家 · Samurai — One of the commanders of the Minamoto forces in the Genpei War
- Fujiwara no Motofusa 松殿基房 · Samurai — Japanese noble
Reading the year 1145 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1145 corresponds to Kyūan 久安 (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 1145年 (1145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.