Year in Japan

1670 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Kanbun 寛文 (year 10 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Horibe Yasubei 堀部武庸 · Samurai — Samurai; one of 47 ronin

Reading the year 1670 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1670 corresponds to Kanbun 寛文 (year 10 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 1670年 (1670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.