Year in Japan
1838 in Japanese History
14 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Edo period (江戸時代, 1603 – 1868).
Era name: Tenpō 天保 (year 8 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Matsusaburō Yokoyama 横山松三郎 · Painter — Japanese photographer and painter (1838-1884)
- Ōkuma Shigenobu 大隈重信 · Politician — Japanese politician (1838-1922)
- Yamagata Aritomo 山縣有朋 · Politician — Japanese military leader and statesman (1838–1922)
- Shōjirō Gotō 後藤象二郎 · Politician — Japanese noble (1838-1897)
- Toyohara Chikanobu 楊洲周延 · Painter — Japanese artist (1838-1912)
- Konoe Tadafusa 近衛忠房 · Samurai — kugyō (1838–1873)
- Yasuda Zenjirō 安田善次郎 · Monk — Japanese businessman (1838-1921)
- Kuroda Nagatomo 黒田長知 · Samurai — Japanese noble
- Mizuno Katsutomo 水野勝知 · Samurai — daimyo (1838-1919)
- Murata Tsuneyoshi 村田経芳 · Politician — Japanese military personnel
- Tanaka Yoshio 田中芳男 · Politician — Japanese naturalist and bureaucrat (1838–1916)
- Kusumoto Masataka 楠本正隆 · Politician — politician
- Nagayo Sensai 長与専斎 · Politician — Japanese physician and bureaucrat
- Okada Izō 岡田以蔵 · Samurai — Japanese swordsman (1838-1865)
Reading the year 1838 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1838 corresponds to Tenpō 天保 (year 8 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 1838年 (1838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.