Year in Japan

1811 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 8 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Sakuma Shōzan 佐久間象山 · Politician — Japanese politician (1811-1864)
Kuroda Nagahiro 黒田長溥 · Samurai — daimyo
Maeda Nariyasu 前田斉泰 · Samurai — Japanese noble (1811-1884)
Nishio Tadakata 西尾忠固 · Samurai — daimyo
Matsudaira Naritsugu 松平斉承 · Samurai — 14th daimyō of Fukui Domain (1811–1835)

Reading the year 1811 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1811 corresponds to Bunka 文化 (year 8 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 1811年 (1811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.