Year in Japan

1809 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Bunka 文化 (year 6 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Yokoi Shōnan 横井小楠 · Politician — Japanese politician (1809-1869)
Shimazu Nariakira 島津斉彬 · Samurai — Daimyo or lord of Satsuma Domain (1809–1858)
Nakayama Tadayasu 中山忠能 · Politician — Japanese courtier and peer (1809-1888)
Matsudaira Munehide 松平宗秀 · Samurai — daimyo (1809–1873)
Wakisaka Yasuori 脇坂安宅 · Samurai — Japanese Daimyo (1809-1874)

Reading the year 1809 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1809 corresponds to Bunka 文化 (year 6 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 1809年 (1809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.