Year in Japan

1815 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Bunka 文化 (year 12 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Ii Naosuke 井伊直弼 · Politician — daimyo (1815-1860)
Inaba Masami 稲葉正巳 · Samurai — daimyo (1815–1879)
Hagiwara Hiromichi 萩原広道 · Philosopher — Japanese philosopher
Saitō Chikudō 斎藤竹堂 · Historian — Japanese poet (1815–1852)

Reading the year 1815 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1815 corresponds to Bunka 文化 (year 12 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 1815年 (1815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.