Year in Japan

1721 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Kyōhō 享保 (year 6 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Hachisuka Muneshige 蜂須賀宗鎮 · Samurai — Daimyo who ruled the Tokushima Domain
Tokugawa Munetada 徳川宗尹 · Samurai — Japanese samurai (1721-1765)
Hosokawa Shigekata 細川重賢 · Samurai — daimyo

Reading the year 1721 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1721 corresponds to Kyōhō 享保 (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 1721年 (1721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.