Year in Japan

1669 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Kanbun 寛文 (year 9 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Kada no Azumamaro 荷田春満 · Writer — poet
Tsugaru Nobuhisa 津軽信寿 · Samurai — Japanese Daimyo
Kujō Sukezane 九条輔実 · Painter — kugyō (1669-1729)
Mizuno Tadayuki 水野忠之 · Samurai — daimyo
Kinokuniya Bunzaemon 紀伊國屋文左衛門 · Monk — Japanese merchant

Reading the year 1669 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1669 corresponds to Kanbun 寛文 (year 9 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 1669年 (1669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.