Year in Japan

1641 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 18 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Tokugawa Ietsuna 徳川家綱 · Samurai — Tokugawa shogun (1641-1680)
Shinshū Ōtani-ha Hakodate Betsu-in Temple 真宗大谷派函館別院 · Buddhist temple — Buddhist temple in Hokkaido, Japan

Reading the year 1641 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1641 corresponds to Kan'ei 寛永 (year 18 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 1641年 (1641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.