Year in Japan
1855 in Japanese History
16 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Edo period (江戸時代, 1603 – 1868).
Era name: Ansei 安政 (year 1 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Ansei 安政 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from January 1855 to April 1860
- Takatsukasa Hiromichi 鷹司煕通 · Politician — kazoku of the Meiji period (1855-1918)
- Inukai Tsuyoshi 犬養毅 · Politician — Japanese politician and Prime Minister of Japan (1855–1932)
- Aeba Koson 饗庭篁村 · Journalist — Japanese author (1855–1922)
- Hozumi Nobushige 穂積陳重 · Politician — Japanese legal scholar
- Matsudaira Nobunori 松平喜徳 · Samurai — [松平喜徳] daimyo of the late edo period; 10th lord of Aizu (1855–1891)
- Kikuchi Dairoku 菊池大麓 · Politician — Japanese mathematician and bureaucrat (1855-1917)
- Suematsu Kenchō 末松謙澄 · Historian — Japanese politician (1855-1920)
- Komura Jutarō 小村壽太郎 · Politician — Japanese diplomat (1855–1911)
- Taguchi Ukichi 田口卯吉 · Historian — Japanese economist and historian (1855–1905)
- Aoyama Yukiyoshi 青山幸宜 · Politician — (1854-1930)
- Ogimachi Sanemasa 正親町実正 · Politician — (1855-1923)
- Yoshimatsu Goseda 五姓田義松 · Painter — Japanese painter
- Ōishi Masami 大石正巳 · Politician — Japanese politician
- Tōyama Mitsuru 頭山満 · Politician — Japanese politician (1855−1944)
- Ryōichirō Arai 新井領一郎 · Monk — Japanese businessman
Reading the year 1855 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1855 corresponds to Ansei 安政 (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 1855年 (1855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.