Year in Japan

1665 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Kanbun 寛文 (year 5 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Kagami Shikō 各務支考 · Writer — Japanese poet and writer
Torii Tadateru 鳥居忠英 · Samurai — Daimyo who ruled the Shimomura, Minakuchi, and Mibu Domains

Reading the year 1665 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1665 corresponds to Kanbun 寛文 (year 5 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 1665年 (1665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.