Year in Japan

1162 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 2 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Fujiwara no Teika 藤原定家 · Writer — poet and court noble (1162–1241)
Kajiwara Kagesue 梶原景季 · Samurai — samurai

Reading the year 1162 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1162 corresponds to Ōhō 応保 (year 2 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 1162年 (1162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.