Year in Japan
1861 in Japanese History
14 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Edo period (江戸時代, 1603 – 1868).
Era name: Bunkyū 文久 (year 1 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Bunkyū 文久 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from March 1861 to March 1864
- Katō Tomosaburō 加藤友三郎 · Politician — Japanese admiral (1861-1923)
- Kanzō Uchimura 内村鑑三 · Philosopher — Japanese writer (1861–1930)
- Park Yeong-hyo 朴泳孝 · Politician — Korean politician (1861-1939)
- Ochiai Naobumi 落合直文 · Writer — poet (1861–1903)
- Makino Nobuaki 牧野伸顕 · Politician — Japanese politician (1861–1949)
- Hirotsu Ryurō 広津柳浪 · Writer — Japanese novelist (1861–1928)
- Kiyohara Tama ラグーザ玉 · Painter — Japanese artist (1861-1939)
- Nakahashi Tokugorō 中橋徳五郎 · Politician — Japanese politician (1861–1934)
- Tameyuki Amano 天野為之 · Politician — Japanese politician, educator, economist (1861–1938)
- Kurahara Korehiro 蔵原惟郭 · Politician — Japanese social activist and politician
- Fujisawa Rikitarō 藤沢利喜太郎 · Politician — Japanese mathematician (1861-1933)
- Seito Saibara 西原清東 · Politician — Japanese politician (1861-1939)
- Katō Sadakichi 加藤定吉 · Politician — Imperial Japanese Navy officer
Reading the year 1861 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1861 corresponds to Bunkyū 文久 (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 1861年 (1861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.