Year in Japan
1664 in Japanese History
3 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Edo period (江戸時代, 1603 – 1868).
Era name: Kanbun 寛文 (year 4 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Torii Kiyonobu 鳥居清信 · Painter — painter and printmaker (1664-1729)
- Nagai Naohiro 永井直敬 · Samurai — Daimyo who ruled the Akō Domain
- Sonome 斯波園女 · Writer — Japanese poet
Reading the year 1664 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1664 corresponds to Kanbun 寛文 (year 4 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 1664年 (1664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.