Year in Japan
1841 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 11 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Itō Hirobumi 伊藤博文 · Politician — 1st, 5th, 7th and 10th Prime Minister of Japan (1841–1909)
- Chisaka Takamasa 千坂高雅 · Politician — samurai (1841–1912)
- Fukuchi Genichiro 福地源一郎 · Politician — Japanese writer (1841-1906)
- Utagawa Yoshitaki 中井芳滝 · Painter — Japanese ukiyo-e artist and printmaker (1841-1899)
- Shōzō Tanaka 田中正造 · Politician — Japanese politician
- Date Kunishige 伊達邦成 · Samurai — Samurai and 15th head of the Watari-Date family
Reading the year 1841 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1841 corresponds to Tenpō 天保 (year 11 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 1841年 (1841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.