Year in Japan

1152 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Ninpei 仁平 (year 2 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Taira no Tomomori 平知盛 · Samurai — Taira Clan commander in the Genpei War
Imai Kanehira 今井兼平 · Samurai — Japanese samurai

Reading the year 1152 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1152 corresponds to Ninpei 仁平 (year 2 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 1152年 (1152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.