Year in Japan

1801 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Kyōwa 享和 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Kyōwa 享和 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from March 1801 to March 1804
Egawa Hidetatsu 江川英龍 · Samurai — samurai (1801–1855)
Hayashi Akira 林復斎 · Philosopher — Japanese scholar-diplomat (1801-1859)
Tsubaki Chinzan 椿椿山 · Painter — Japanese painter (1801-1854)

Reading the year 1801 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1801 corresponds to Kyōwa 享和 (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 1801年 (1801ねん) in modern Japanese. Browse the full timeline to see where this year sits in the wider arc, or the 19th century for its neighbours.