Year in Japan
1709 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 6 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Tokugawa Ietsugu 徳川家継 · Politician — The seventh shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (1709-1716)
- Hachisuka Munekazu 蜂須賀宗員 · Samurai — Daimyo who ruled the Tokushima Domain
Reading the year 1709 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1709 corresponds to Hōei 宝永 (year 6 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 1709年 (1709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.