Year in Japan

1773 in Japanese History

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

Era name: An'ei 安永 (year 2 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Utagawa Kunimasa 歌川国政 · Painter — Japanese artist (1773-1810)
Tokugawa Harutoshi 徳川治紀 · Samurai — daimyo (1773-1816)
Utagawa Toyohiro 歌川豊広 · Painter — Japanese artist (1773-1828)

Reading the year 1773 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1773 corresponds to An'ei 安永 (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 1773年 (1773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.