Year in Japan
1776 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 5 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Shikitei Sanba 式亭三馬 · Writer — Japanese writer (1776–1822)
- Hirata Atsutane 平田篤胤 · Philosopher — conventionally ranked as one of the four great men of kokugaku studies, and one of the most signific
- Zusho Hirosato 調所広郷 · Samurai — samurai
Reading the year 1776 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1776 corresponds to An'ei 安永 (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 1776年 (1776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.