Year in Japan
1862 in Japanese History
9 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Edo period (江戸時代, 1603 – 1868).
Era name: Bunkyū 文久 (year 2 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Nitobe Inazō 新渡戸稲造 · Politician — Japanese educator, agricultural economist and diplomat (1862–1933)
- Mori Ōgai 森鷗外 · Writer — Japanese novelist and army physician (1862-1922)
- Motono Ichirō 本野一郎 · Politician — Japanese noble (1862-1918)
- Prince Arisugawa Takehito 有栖川宮威仁親王 · Politician — Japanese admiral (1862-1913)
- Inabata Katsutaro 稲畑勝太郎 · Politician — Businessperson and film producer (1862-1949)
- Toshihide Migita 右田年英 · Painter — Japanese artist
- Ogasawara Tadanobu 小笠原忠忱 · Politician — Daimyo who ruled the Kokura Domain
- Shuroku Kuroiwa 黒岩涙香 · Journalist — Japanese writer and novelist (1862-1920)
- Naitō Takaharu 内藤高治 · Samurai — Japanese samurai
Reading the year 1862 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1862 corresponds to Bunkyū 文久 (year 2 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 1862年 (1862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.