Year in Japan
1181 in Japanese History
3 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Heian period (平安時代, 794 – 1185).
Era name: Yōwa 養和 (year 1 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Jan 15 Siege of Nara 南都焼討 · Siege — 1181 siege
- Jun 8 Battle of Sunomata-gawa 墨俣川の戦い · Battle — battle in 1181 in Japan
- Yōwa 養和 · Japanese era name — Japanese era, spanning from July 1181 through May 1182
Reading the year 1181 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1181 corresponds to Yōwa 養和 (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 1181年 (1181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.