Year in Japan

1684 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Jōkyō 貞享 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Jōkyō 貞享 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from April 1684 to October 1688
Tokugawa Yoshimune 徳川吉宗 · Politician — The eighth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (1684-1751)

Reading the year 1684 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1684 corresponds to Jōkyō 貞享 (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 1684年 (1684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.