Year in Japan

1176 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Angen 安元 (year 2 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Asahina Yoshihide 朝比奈義秀 · Samurai — Japanese samurai
Fujiwara Nobuzane 藤原信実 · Writer — Aristocrat poet and portrait artist (1176-1265)

Reading the year 1176 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1176 corresponds to Angen 安元 (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 1176年 (1176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.