Year in Japan
1872 in Japanese History
7 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Meiji period (明治時代, 1868 – 1912).
Era name: Meiji era 明治 (year 5 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Ichiyō Higuchi 樋口一葉 · Writer — Japanese writer
- Katai Tayama 田山花袋 · Writer — Japanese novelist (1872-1930)
- Tōson Shimazaki 島崎藤村 · Writer — Japanese writer (1872–1943)
- Shūsei Tokuda 徳田秋声 · Writer — Japanese writer (1872–1943)
- Kido Okamoto 岡本綺堂 · Journalist — Japanese writer (1872–1939)
- Akebono Kimura 木村曙 · Writer — Japanese novelist
- Nijō Masamaro 二条正麿 · Politician — Japanese noble (1872–1929)
Reading the year 1872 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1872 corresponds to Meiji era 明治 (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 1872年 (1872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.