Year in Japan

1150 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Kyūan 久安 (year 6 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Minamoto no Noriyori 源範頼 · Samurai — samurai of the late Heian and early Kamakura period
Kaikei 快慶 · Painter — Japanese artist and painter (1150-1250)
Go-Toba In Kunai-kyō 後鳥羽院宮内卿 · Writer — Japanese lady poet
Taira no Kagekiyo 藤原景清 · Samurai — samurai

Reading the year 1150 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1150 corresponds to Kyūan 久安 (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 1150年 (1150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.