Year in Japan

1736 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Genbun 元文 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Genbun 元文 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from June 1736 to April 1741
Sonsai 木村蒹葭堂 · Painter — Japanese painter (1736-1802)
Itakura Katsutake 板倉勝武 · Samurai — daimyo
Ōkubo Tadayoshi 大久保忠由 · Samurai — daimyo

Reading the year 1736 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1736 corresponds to Genbun 元文 (year 1 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 1736年 (1736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.