Year in Japan
1859 in Japanese History
12 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Edo period (江戸時代, 1603 – 1868).
Era name: Ansei 安政 (year 5 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Takeda Sōkaku 武田惣角 · Samurai — Japanese martial artist (1859-1943)
- Tsubouchi Shōyō 坪内逍遥 · Writer — Japanese writer (1859–1935)
- Sen Katayama 片山潜 · Politician — Japanese journalist (1859–1933)
- Ogata Gekkō 尾形月耕 · Painter — Japanese artist (1859-1920)
- Ido Reizan 井土霊山 · Journalist — Japanese journalist and writer
- Fujisawa Ikunosuke 藤沢幾之輔 · Politician — Japanese politician (1859-1940)
- Makino Tadakatsu 牧野忠毅 · Samurai — daimyo
- Nijō Motohiro 二条基弘 · Politician — Japanese nobleman (1859-1928)
- Ryutaro Nomura 野村龍太郎 · Monk — Japanese businessman
- Machimura Kin'ya 町村金弥 · Politician — Japanese politician
- Kushibiki Yumindo 櫛引弓人 · Monk — Japanese impresario
- Niwa Nagahiro 丹羽長裕 · Samurai — Daimyo who ruled the Nihonmatsu han
Reading the year 1859 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1859 corresponds to Ansei 安政 (year 5 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 1859年 (1859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.