Year in Japan
1857 in Japanese History
13 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Edo period (江戸時代, 1603 – 1868).
Era name: Ansei 安政 (year 3 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Uryū Sotokichi 瓜生外吉 · Politician — Japanese admiral and politician (1857-1937)
- Chinda Sutemi 珍田捨巳 · Politician — Japanese diplomat (1857-1929)
- Itō Miyoji 伊東巳代治 · Politician — Japanese politician (1857-1934)
- Ueki Emori 植木枝盛 · Philosopher — Japanese politician (1857–1892)
- Ōkubo Tadayoshi 大久保忠良 · Samurai — Japanese samurai (1857-1877)
- Koyama Shōtarō 小山正太郎 · Painter — Japanese painter (1857-1916)
- Yokoi Tokio 横井時雄 · Politician — Japanese Christian missionary, journalist, and member of the Japanese House of Representatives (1857
- Michitomo Kanamori 金森通倫 · Journalist — (1857-1945)
- Kuga Katsunan 陸羯南 · Philosopher — journalist (1857-1907)
- Sadanori Matsudaira 松平定教 · Politician — [松平定教] bureaucrat
- Satō Sankichi 佐藤三吉 · Politician — Japanese medical scientist (1857–1943)
- Rin Yamashita 山下りん · Painter — Japanese icon painter (1857-1939)
- Ashikaga Satouji 足利聡氏 · Samurai — Japanese noble
Reading the year 1857 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1857 corresponds to Ansei 安政 (year 3 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 1857年 (1857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.