Year in Japan
1147 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 3 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Minamoto no Yoritomo 源頼朝 · Politician — 1st shogun of the Kamakura shogunate (1147–1199)
- Taira no Munemori 平宗盛 · Samurai — One of the Taira clan's chief commanders in the Genpei War
- Wada Yoshimori 和田義盛 · Samurai — Japanese samurai
Reading the year 1147 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1147 corresponds to Kyūan 久安 (year 3 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 1147年 (1147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.