Year in Japan

1740 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Genbun 元文 (year 5 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Go-Sakuramachi 後桜町天皇 · Politician — empress regnant of Japan (1740-1813)

Reading the year 1740 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1740 corresponds to Genbun 元文 (year 5 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 1740年 (1740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.