Year in Japan

1182 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Juei 寿永 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Juei 寿永 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from May 1182 to March 1184
Minamoto no Yoriie 源頼家 · Samurai — 2nd shogun of Kamakura shogunate

Reading the year 1182 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1182 corresponds to Juei 寿永 (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 1182年 (1182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.