Year in Japan

1758 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Hōreki 宝暦 (year 8 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Hachisuka Haruaki 蜂須賀治昭 · Samurai — daimyo who ruled the Tokushima Domain
Ryōkan 良寛 · Writer — Japanese Buddhist monk (1758–1831)
Yonekura Masakata 米倉昌賢 · Samurai — daimyo

Reading the year 1758 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1758 corresponds to Hōreki 宝暦 (year 8 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 1758年 (1758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.