Year in Japan
1837 in Japanese History
17 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Edo period (江戸時代, 1603 – 1868).
Era name: Tenpō 天保 (year 7 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Tokugawa Yoshinobu 徳川慶喜 · Politician — 15th and last shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate (1837–1913)
- Itagaki Taisuke 板垣退助 · Politician — Japanese politician (1837–1919)
- Shōzō Kawasaki 川崎正蔵 · Politician — Japanese industrialist and shipbuilder (1837–1912)
- Sanjō Sanetomi 三条実美 · Politician — Japanese politician (1837-1891)
- Kabayama Sukenori 樺山資紀 · Politician — Japanese general (1837-1922)
- Yamao Yōzō 山尾庸三 · Politician — Japanese politician (1837-1917)
- Joseph Heco 浜田彦蔵 · Journalist — Japanese journalist (1837–1897)
- Tani Tateki 谷干城 · Politician — Japanese politician (1837-1911)
- Tomioka Tessai 富岡鉄斎 · Painter — Japanese artist (1837-1924)
- Tsuda Sen 津田仙 · Politician — Japanese politician (1837–1908)
- Nakamuta Kuranosuke 中牟田倉之助 · Samurai — Japanese admiral
- Ōkura Kihachirō 大倉喜八郎 · Monk — Japanese businessman (1837–1928)
- Ikeda Nagaoki 池田長発 · Samurai — samurai (1837-1879)
- Inoue Masanao 井上正直 · Samurai — Japanese noble
- Yonekura Masakoto 米倉昌言 · Samurai — daimyo
- Narushima Ryūhoku 成島柳北 · Philosopher — Japanese writer and philosopher
- Nagayama Takeshirō 永山武四郎 · Politician
Reading the year 1837 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1837 corresponds to Tenpō 天保 (year 7 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 1837年 (1837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.