Year in Japan

1810 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 7 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Hotta Masayoshi 堀田正睦 · Samurai — daimyo (1810-1864)
Tokugawa Naritaka 徳川斉荘 · Samurai — daimyo (1810-1845)
Matsudaira Yoritaka 松平頼位 · Writer — [松平頼位] daimyo of the late Edo period; 8th and 10th lord of Shishido

Reading the year 1810 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1810 corresponds to Bunka 文化 (year 7 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 1810年 (1810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.