Year in Japan

1730 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Kyōhō 享保 (year 15 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Motoori Norinaga 本居宣長 · Philosopher — Japanese scholar and philosopher (1730–1801)
Kanō Michinobu 狩野典信 · Painter — Japanese painter (1730-1790)
Namiki Shōzō I 並木正三 (初代) · Writer — Kabuki playwright
Soga Shōhaku 曾我蕭白 · Painter — Japanese painter (1730-1781)
Nabeshima Naooki 鍋島直興 · Samurai — daimyo (1730-1757)

Reading the year 1730 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1730 corresponds to Kyōhō 享保 (year 15 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 1730年 (1730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.