Year in Japan
1882 in Japanese History
11 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Meiji period (明治時代, 1868 – 1912).
Era name: Meiji era 明治 (year 15 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Shigeru Aoki 青木繁 · Painter — Japanese painter (1882-1911)
- Hisao Tani 谷寿夫 · Historian — Japanese general (1882–1947)
- Prince Tsunehisa Takeda 竹田宮恒久王 · Politician — Japanese politician (1882-1919)
- Kunihiko Hashida 橋田邦彦 · Politician — Japanese physiologist and bureaucrat
- Shinkichi Hashimoto 橋本進吉 · Writer — Japanese linguist (1882-1945)
- Kanae Yamamoto 山本鼎 · Painter — Japanese artist (1882-1946)
- Miekichi Suzuki 鈴木三重吉 · Writer — Japanese writer (1882-1936)
- Santōka Taneda 種田山頭火 · Writer — Japanese poet (1882–1940)
- Katsuzō Toyoda 豊田勝蔵 · Politician — politician
- Shinichi Sagami 佐上信一 · Politician — Japanese politician
- Sokei-an 佐々木指月 · Journalist — Japanese Buddhist monk (1882–1945)
Reading the year 1882 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1882 corresponds to Meiji era 明治 (year 15 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 1882年 (1882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.