Year in Japan

1163 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Chōkan 長寛 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Chōkan 長寛 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from March 1163 to June 1165
Hōjō Yoshitoki 北条義時 · Samurai — 2nd Shikken of the Kamakura shogunate

Reading the year 1163 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1163 corresponds to Chōkan 長寛 (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 1163年 (1163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.