Year in Japan
1848 in Japanese History
16 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Edo period (江戸時代, 1603 – 1868).
Era name: Kaei 嘉永 (year 1 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Kaei 嘉永 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from April 1848 to January 1855
- Katsura Tarō 桂太郎 · Politician — Japanese general and politician (1848–1913)
- Tōgō Heihachirō 東郷平八郎 · Military officer — Japanese admiral of the fleet (1848–1934)
- Masuda Takashi 益田孝 · Monk — Japanese noble
- Watanabe Hiromoto 渡辺洪基 · Politician — Japanese bureaucrat (1848–1901)
- Arinobu Fukuhara 福原有信 · Monk — Japanese businessman
- Asano Sōichirō 浅野総一郎 · Monk — Japanese businessman (1848-1930)
- Ii Naonori 井伊直憲 · Politician — daimyo who ruled the Hikone Domain
- Saneyoshi Yasuzumi 実吉安純 · Politician — Japanese navy physician (1848-1932)
- Ogawa Mataji 小川又次 · Samurai — Japanese general
- Asada Tokunori 浅田徳則 · Politician — Japanese diplomat (1848-1933)
- Shimada Ichirō 島田一郎 · Samurai — Japanese samurai assassin
- Inaba Masayoshi 稲葉正善 · Politician — Japanese noble
- Kunisawa Shinkurō 国沢新九郎 · Painter — painter (1848-1877)
- Isamu Sonoyama 園山勇 · Politician — politician (1848-1921)
- Utagawa Kunisada III 三代目 歌川国貞 · Painter — Japanese artist (1848-1920)
Reading the year 1848 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1848 corresponds to Kaei 嘉永 (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 1848年 (1848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.