Year in Japan

1161 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Ōhō 応保 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Ōhō 応保 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from September 1161 to March 1163
Satō Tadanobu 佐藤忠信 · Samurai — samurai

Reading the year 1161 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1161 corresponds to Ōhō 応保 (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 1161年 (1161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.