Year in Japan
1820 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 3 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Uesugi Narinori 上杉斉憲 · Samurai — Saimyo of the Edo period, who ruled the Yonezawa Domain (1820–1889)
- Moriyama Einosuke 森山栄之助 · Samurai — samurai
- Hamaguchi Goryō 濱口梧陵 · Politician — Japanese businessman (1820–1885)
- Matsudaira Narisawa 松平斉善 · Samurai — Japanese daimyo
- Tanaka Tosa 田中玄清 · Samurai — Samuari who fought in the Boshin War
Reading the year 1820 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1820 corresponds to Bunsei 文政 (year 3 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 1820年 (1820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.