Year in Japan

1171 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Jōan 承安 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Jōan 承安 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from April 1171 to July 1175
Minamoto no Michitomo 堀川通具 · Politician — Japanese poet and writer
Shunzei's Daughter 藤原俊成女 · Writer — poet

Reading the year 1171 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1171 corresponds to Jōan 承安 (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 1171年 (1171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.