Year in Japan
1661 in Japanese History
6 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Edo period (江戸時代, 1603 – 1868).
Era name: Kanbun 寛文 (year 1 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Kanbun 寛文 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from May 1661 to October 1673
- Takarai Kikaku 宝井其角 · Writer — Japanese poet
- Uejima Onitsura 上島鬼貫 · Writer — Japanese poet and writer
- Manpuku-ji Temple 萬福寺 · Buddhist temple — Buddhist temple in Uji, Kyoto prefecture, Japan
- Hachisuka Tsunanori 蜂須賀綱矩 · Samurai — Daimyo who ruled the Tokushima Domain (1661-1730)
- Matsudaira Tsunamasa 松平綱昌 · Samurai — daimyo
Reading the year 1661 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1661 corresponds to Kanbun 寛文 (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 1661年 (1661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.