Year in Japan
1160 in Japanese History
6 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Heian period (平安時代, 794 – 1185).
Era name: Eiryaku 永暦 (year 1 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Eiryaku 永暦 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from January 1160 to September 1161
- Meigetsu-in 明月院 · Buddhist temple — Buddhist temple in Kamakura, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan
- Konoe Motomichi 近衛基通 · Samurai — Kugyō and kampaku
- Taira no Noritsune 平教経 · Samurai — Japanese warrior
- Taira no Koremori 平維盛 · Samurai — Japanese commander
- Sasaki Takatsuna 佐々木高綱 · Samurai — samurai
Reading the year 1160 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1160 corresponds to Eiryaku 永暦 (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 1160年 (1160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.