Year in Japan

1636 in Japanese History

2 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Edo period (江戸時代, 1603 – 1868).

Era name: Kan'ei 寛永 (year 13 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Matsudaira Mitsumichi 松平光通 · Samurai — daimyo of the early Edo period; lord of Fukui
Kanō Tsunenobu 狩野常信 · Painter — Japanese painter (1636-1713)

Reading the year 1636 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1636 corresponds to Kan'ei 寛永 (year 13 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 1636年 (1636ねん) in modern Japanese. Browse the full timeline to see where this year sits in the wider arc, or the 17th century for its neighbours.