Year in Japan

1149 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Kyūan 久安 (year 5 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Fujiwara no Kanezane 九条兼実 · Samurai — Japanese noble
Shikishi-naishinnō 式子内親王 · Writer — Japanese princess and poet, daughter of emperor Go-Shirakawa

Reading the year 1149 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1149 corresponds to Kyūan 久安 (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 1149年 (1149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.