Year in Japan
1787 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 7 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Kikukawa Eizan 菊川英山 · Painter — Japanese artist (1787-1867)
- Ninomiya Sontoku 二宮尊徳 · Philosopher — Japanese philosopher
- Ema Saikō 江馬細香 · Writer — Japanese poet and calligrapher
- Yanagawa Shigenobu 柳川重信 · Painter — Japanese artist
- Kusaba Haisen 草場佩川 · Philosopher — Japanese Confucianist, educater, poet and painter (1787-1867)
Reading the year 1787 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1787 corresponds to Tenmei 天明 (year 7 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 1787年 (1787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.