Year in Japan

1741 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Kanpō 寛保 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Kanpō 寛保 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from April 1741 to April 1744
Maeda Shigemichi 前田重教 · Samurai — daimyo (1741-1786)
Makino Tadahiro 牧野忠寛 · Samurai — daimyo

Reading the year 1741 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1741 corresponds to Kanpō 寛保 (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 1741年 (1741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.