Year in Japan
1839 in Japanese History
12 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Edo period (江戸時代, 1603 – 1868).
Era name: Tenpō 天保 (year 9 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Yoshitoshi 月岡芳年 · Painter — Japanese artist and printmaker (1839–1892)
- Takasugi Shinsaku 高杉晋作 · Samurai — samurai (1839-1867)
- Nagakura Shinpachi 永倉新八 · Samurai — Japanese swordsman (1839–1915)
- Kume Kunitake 久米邦武 · Historian — Japanese historian (1839-1931)
- Matsuda Michiyuki 松田道之 · Politician — Japanese politician (1839-1882)
- Hoshino Hisashi 星野恒 · Historian — Japanese historian and sinologist (1839–1917)
- Kujō Michitaka 九条道孝 · Politician — Japanese court noble (1839-1906)
- San'yūtei Enchō 三遊亭圓朝 · Writer — Japanese writer (1839–1900)
- Nakane Kōtei 中根香亭 · Philosopher — Japanese sinologist
- Matsudaira Tarō 松平太郎 · Politician — Japanese politician (1839–1909)
- Hosoya Jūdayū 細谷直英 · Samurai — Japanese Samurai
- Matsudaira Norikata 大給恒 · Politician — Japanese noble
Reading the year 1839 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1839 corresponds to Tenpō 天保 (year 9 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 1839年 (1839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.