Year in Japan

1159 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Heiji 平治 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Heiji 平治 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from April 1159 to January 1160
Minamoto no Yoshitsune 源義経 · Samurai — samurai of the late Heian and early Kamakura period

Reading the year 1159 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1159 corresponds to Heiji 平治 (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 1159年 (1159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.