Year in Japan

1789 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Kansei 寛政 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Kansei 寛政 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from February 1789 to March 1801
Doi Toshitsura 土井利位 · Samurai — daimyo

Reading the year 1789 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1789 corresponds to Kansei 寛政 (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 1789年 (1789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.