Year in Japan

1818 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Bunsei 文政 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Bunsei 文政 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from May 1818 to January 1831
Date Munenari 伊達宗城 · Politician — Eighth head of the Uwajima Domain (1818-1892)
Sō Yoshiyori 宗義和 · Samurai — daimyo (1818-1890)
Matsuura Takeshirō 松浦武四郎 · Painter — geographer and explorer (1818-1888)
Katakura Kuninori 片倉邦憲 · Samurai — samurai (1818–1886)

Reading the year 1818 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1818 corresponds to Bunsei 文政 (year 1 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 1818年 (1818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.