Year in Japan

1165 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Eiman 永万 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Eiman 永万 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from June 1165 to August 1166
Sanjūsangen-dō Temple 三十三間堂 · Buddhist temple — Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan

Reading the year 1165 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1165 corresponds to Eiman 永万 (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 1165年 (1165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.