Year in Japan

1158 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Hōgen 保元 (year 3 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Fujiwara no Ietaka 藤原家隆 · Writer — poet

Reading the year 1158 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1158 corresponds to Hōgen 保元 (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 1158年 (1158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.