Year in Japan
1169 in Japanese History
3 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Heian period (平安時代, 794 – 1185).
Era name: Kaō 嘉応 (year 1 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Kaō 嘉応 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from April 1169 to April 1171
- Kujō Yoshitsune 九条良経 · Writer — Japanese court noble from the late Heian period to the early Kamakura period
- Taira no Atsumori 平敦盛 · Samurai — Famous for his early death in single combat at the Battle of Ichi-no-Tani
Reading the year 1169 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1169 corresponds to Kaō 嘉応 (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 1169年 (1169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.