Year in Japan
1804 in Japanese History
3 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Edo period (江戸時代, 1603 – 1868).
Era name: Bunka 文化 (year 1 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Bunka 文化 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from March 1804 to May 1818
- Manabe Akikatsu 間部詮勝 · Samurai — daimyo (1804–1884)
- Chō Kōran 梁川紅蘭 · Writer — Japanese poet and artist (1804-1879)
Reading the year 1804 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1804 corresponds to Bunka 文化 (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 1804年 (1804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.