Year in Japan
1881 in Japanese History
12 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Meiji period (明治時代, 1868 – 1912).
Era name: Meiji era 明治 (year 14 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Ryūtarō Nagai 永井柳太郎 · Politician — politician in the Empire of Japan (1881-1944)
- Kaoru Osanai 小山内薫 · Writer — Japanese theater director (1881–1928)
- Chōkō Ikuta 生田長江 · Writer — Japanese critic, playwright and novelist (1881–1936)
- Kanno Sugako 管野スガ · Journalist — Japanese journalist (1881–1911)
- Kiyoshi Akita 秋田清 · Politician — Japanese politician
- Morita Sōhei 森田草平 · Writer — Japanese writer and translator (1881-1949)
- Shigeo Iwanami 岩波茂雄 · Politician — Businessman, Publisher
- Noritsugu Hayakawa 早川徳次 · Monk — Japanese businessman
- Jiro Yamagata 山県治郎 · Politician — Japanese politician
- Morita Tsunetomo 森田恒友 · Painter — painter (1881-1933)
- Shinobu Agata 縣忍 · Politician — Japanese politician
- Jun Ishiwara 石原純 · Writer — Japanese poet and physicist (1881–1947)
Reading the year 1881 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1881 corresponds to Meiji era 明治 (year 14 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 1881年 (1881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.