Year in Japan
1853 in Japanese History
9 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Edo period (江戸時代, 1603 – 1868).
Era name: Kaei 嘉永 (year 6 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Kitasato Shibasaburō 北里柴三郎 · Politician — Japanese bacteriologist, immunologist
- Kaneko Kentarō 金子堅太郎 · Politician — Japanese politician, one of the drafters of the Meiji Constitution (1853–1942)
- Oda Nobutoshi 織田信敏 · Samurai — Daimyo of the Tendō Domain
- Nakamura Junkuro 中村純九郎 · Politician — Japanese councillor, politician, and astronomer (1853-1947)
- Egi Kazuyuki 江木千之 · Politician — Japanese bureaucrat and politician (1853–1932)
- Adachi Ginkō 安達吟光 · Painter — Japanese artist (1853-1908)
- Chikaaki Takasaki 高崎親章 · Politician — politician
- Tsunamasa Ōyama 大山綱昌 (官僚) · Politician — Japanese politician
- Hasegawa Takejirō 長谷川武次郎 · Monk — Japanese publisher (1853–1936)
Reading the year 1853 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1853 corresponds to Kaei 嘉永 (year 6 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 1853年 (1853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.