Year in Japan

1782 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Tenmei 天明 (year 2 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Aizawa Seishisai 会沢正志斎 · Philosopher — Japanese philosopher (1782-1863)
Maeda Narinaga 前田斉広 · Samurai — daimyo
Tansō Hirose 広瀬淡窓 · Writer — Japanese poet and writer
Ōkubo Tadazane 大久保忠真 · Samurai — daimyo (1782-1837)
Okada Hanko 岡田半江 · Painter — Japanese artist (1782-1846)

Reading the year 1782 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1782 corresponds to Tenmei 天明 (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 1782年 (1782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.