Year in Japan
1885 in Japanese History
10 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Meiji period (明治時代, 1868 – 1912).
Era name: Meiji era 明治 (year 18 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Tomoyuki Yamashita 山下奉文 · Military officer — Japanese general and war criminal (1885–1946)
- Sakae Ōsugi 大杉栄 · Journalist — Japanese anarchist (1885–1923)
- Bokusui Wakayama 若山牧水 · Writer — Japanese poet (1885–1928)
- Seishirō Itagaki 板垣征四郎 · Politician — Japanese general (1885-1948)
- Hakushū Kitahara 北原白秋 · Writer — Japanese tanka poet (1885–1942)
- Mokutaro Kinoshita 木下杢太郎 · Writer — Japanese writer and dermatologist (1885-1945)
- Ozaki Hōsai 尾崎放哉 · Writer — Japanese poet (1885-1926)
- Toshinari Maeda 前田利為 · Politician — Japanese general (1885-1942)
- Bunji Suzuki 鈴木文治 · Politician — Japanese politician and labor activist
- Hideo Nagata 長田秀雄 · Writer — Japanese writer (1885–1949)
Reading the year 1885 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1885 corresponds to Meiji era 明治 (year 18 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 1885年 (1885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.