Year in Japan
1780 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 9 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Rai San'yo 頼山陽 · Historian — Japanese poet, historian and painter (1780-1832)
- Hokkei 魚屋北渓 · Painter — Japanese artist (1780–1850)
- Tokugawa Nariatsu 徳川斉敦 · Samurai — 3rd head of Hitotsubashi-Tokugawa house
Reading the year 1780 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1780 corresponds to An'ei 安永 (year 9 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 1780年 (1780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.