Year in Japan

1798 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Kansei 寛政 (year 10 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Date Nariyoshi 伊達斉義 · Samurai — Daimyo
Nabeshima Naotomo 鍋島直与 · Samurai — daimyo (1798-1864)
Hara Saihin 原采蘋 · Writer — Japanese poet and scholar (1798–1859)

Reading the year 1798 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1798 corresponds to Kansei 寛政 (year 10 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 1798年 (1798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.