Year in Japan

1817 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Bunka 文化 (year 14 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Honda Tadamoto 本多忠民 · Samurai — daimyo who ruled the Okazaki Domain (1817-1883)
Date Narikuni 伊達斉邦 · Samurai — daimyo

Reading the year 1817 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1817 corresponds to Bunka 文化 (year 14 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 1817年 (1817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.