Year in Japan

1781 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Tenmei 天明 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Tenmei 天明 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from April 1781 to February 1789

Reading the year 1781 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1781 corresponds to Tenmei 天明 (year 1 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 1781年 (1781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.