Year in Japan

1691 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Genroku 元禄 (year 4 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Tōkō-ji Temple 東光寺 · Buddhist temple — Zen Buddhist temple in Hagi, Japan
Itoigawa Domain 糸魚川藩 · Han domain — historical estate in Japan

Reading the year 1691 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1691 corresponds to Genroku 元禄 (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 1691年 (1691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.