Year in Japan
1831 in Japanese History
6 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Edo period (江戸時代, 1603 – 1868).
Era name: Tenpō 天保 (year 1 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Tenpō 天保 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from January 1831 to January 1845
- Tokugawa Mochinaga 徳川茂徳 · Samurai — daimyo of the last-Edo period, 15th lord of Owari
- Kawanabe Kyōsai 河鍋暁斎 · Painter — Japanese artist (1831–1889)
- Nire Kagenori 仁礼景範 · Samurai — Japanese admiral
- Ōmura Sumihiro 大村純熈 · Samurai — daimyo
- Matsudaira Yorinori 松平頼徳 · Samurai — [松平頼徳] daimyo of the late Edo period; 9th lord of Shishido
Reading the year 1831 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1831 corresponds to Tenpō 天保 (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 1831年 (1831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.