Year in Japan

1786 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Tenmei 天明 (year 6 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 · Painter — ukiyo-e artist (1786–1865)
Yashima Gakutei 岳亭春信 · Painter — Japanese Ukiyo-e artist, fiction writer, and comic tanka poemer

Reading the year 1786 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1786 corresponds to Tenmei 天明 (year 6 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 1786年 (1786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.