Year in Japan

1156 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Hōgen 保元 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Hōgen 保元 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from April 1156 to April 1159
Hōjō Masako 北条政子 · Politician — political leader of Kamakura shogunate

Reading the year 1156 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1156 corresponds to Hōgen 保元 (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 1156年 (1156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.