Year in Japan
1854 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 7 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Takahashi Korekiyo 高橋是清 · Politician — Japanese politician (1854-1936)
- Yamakawa Kenjirō 山川健次郎 · Historian — Japanese physicist (1854-1931)
- Takahira Kogorō 高平小五郎 · Politician — Japanese politician (1854–1926)
- Iinuma Sadakichi 飯沼貞吉 · Samurai — samurai
- Furuichi Kōi 古市公威 · Politician — Japanese civil engineer and bureaucrat
- Minoura Katsundo 箕浦勝人 · Politician — Japanese journalist, politician (1854–1929)
- Okazaki Kunisuke 岡崎邦輔 · Politician — Japanese politician (1854-1936)
- Tadashi Munakata 宗像政 · Politician — Japanese politician (1854-1918)
- Ibuka Kajinosuke 井深梶之助 · Samurai — Japanese educator and Christian minister (1854–1940)
Reading the year 1854 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1854 corresponds to Kaei 嘉永 (year 7 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 1854年 (1854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.