Year in Japan

1749 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Kan'en 寛延 (year 2 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Ōta Nanpo 大田南畝 · Writer — Japanese poet, fiction writer and samurai bureaucrat of the late-edo period (1749–1823)
Kishi Ganku 岸駒 · Painter — Japanese artist (1749-1839)
Nishio Tadayuki 西尾忠移 · Samurai — daimyo
Inaba Masanobu 稲葉正諶 · Samurai — daimyo

Reading the year 1749 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1749 corresponds to Kan'en 寛延 (year 2 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 1749年 (1749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.