Year in Japan

1807 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Bunka 文化 (year 4 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Shibata Zeshin 柴田是真 · Painter — Japanese painter and lacquerer (1807–1891)
Utagawa Sadahide 歌川貞秀 · Painter — Japanese artist (1807–1873)

Reading the year 1807 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1807 corresponds to Bunka 文化 (year 4 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 1807年 (1807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.