Year in Japan
1863 in Japanese History
16 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Edo period (江戸時代, 1603 – 1868).
Era name: Bunkyū 文久 (year 3 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Iwamoto Yoshiharu 巌本善治 · Journalist — early and prominent advocate of women's education in Meiji Japan
- Tokugawa Iesato 德川家達 · Politician — Japanese politician (1863-1940)
- Okakura Kakuzō 岡倉天心 · Writer — Japanese scholar and art critic (1863–1913)
- Harada Naojirō 原田直次郎 · Painter — Japanese painter (1863-1899)
- Hiraoka Sadatarō 平岡定太郎 · Politician — Japanese politician (1863–1942)
- Arai Kentarō 荒井賢太郎 · Politician — Japanese politician
- Machida Chūji 町田忠治 · Politician — politician in the Empire of Japan
- Hayakawa Senkichirō 早川千吉郎 · Politician — Japanese politician (1863–1922)
- Shiga Shigetaka 志賀重昂 · Politician — Japanese geographer
- Kiyozawa Manshi 清沢満之 · Philosopher — Japanese Shin Buddhist reformer (1863–1903)
- Bombardment of Kagoshima 薩英戦争 · Battle — 1863 battle between Britain and the Satsuma Domain
- Utagawa Yoshimune II 二代目 歌川芳宗 · Painter — Japanese ukiyo-e artist
- Norikichi Oshikawa 押川則吉 · Politician — Japanese politician
- Konoe Atsumaro 近衛篤麿 · Politician — Japanese politician (1863-1904)
- Takeda Hideo 武田秀雄 (海軍軍人) · Monk
- Hirata Moritane 平田盛胤 · Writer — Shinto priest
Reading the year 1863 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1863 corresponds to Bunkyū 文久 (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 1863年 (1863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.