Year in Japan

1816 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 13 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Nagai Naoyuki 永井尚志 · Politician — Japanese samurai
Yoshida Tōyō 吉田東洋 · Samurai — samurai (1816–1862)
Kawatake Mokuami 河竹黙阿弥 · Writer — Japanese dramatist of Kabuki (1816–1893)
Jinbo Kuranosuke 神保内蔵助 · Samurai — samurai (1816–1868)
Nijō Nariyuki 二条斉敬 · Samurai — Japanese noble (1816-1878)

Reading the year 1816 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1816 corresponds to Bunka 文化 (year 13 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 1816年 (1816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.