Year in Japan

1705 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Hōei 宝永 (year 2 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Tokugawa Munekatsu 徳川宗勝 · Samurai — daimyo
Tokugawa Munetaka 徳川宗堯 · Samurai — daimyo

Reading the year 1705 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1705 corresponds to Hōei 宝永 (year 2 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 1705年 (1705ねん) in modern Japanese. Browse the full timeline to see where this year sits in the wider arc, or the 18th century for its neighbours.