Year in Japan
1886 in Japanese History
13 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Meiji period (明治時代, 1868 – 1912).
Era name: Meiji era 明治 (year 19 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Chieko Takamura 高村智恵子 · Writer — Japanese painter and papercut artist (1886-1938)
- Sumako Matsui 松井須磨子 · Actor — Japanese actor and singer (1886–1919)
- Takuboku Ishikawa 石川啄木 · Journalist — Japanese poet (1886-1912)
- Sakutarō Hagiwara 萩原朔太郎 · Writer — Japanese writer (1886–1942)
- Seigō Nakano 中野正剛 · Politician — Japanese journalist and politician (1886–1943)
- Chikashi Koizumi 古泉千樫 · Writer — Japanese poet and writer
- Misao Fujimura 藤村操 · Writer — Japanese writer
- Ippei Okamoto 岡本一平 · Painter — Japanese novelist and mangaka (1886-1948)
- Kiuchi Jūshirō 木内重四郎 · Politician — Japanese politician
- Yasushi Tanaka 田中保 · Painter — Japanese artist (1886-1941)
- Jōkō Obama 小浜浄鉱 · Politician — Japanese politician and bureacrat
- Rash Behari Bose ラース・ビハーリー・ボース · Politician — Indian independence activist (1886–1945)
- Kinoshita Rigen 木下利玄 · Writer — Japanese poet
Reading the year 1886 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1886 corresponds to Meiji era 明治 (year 19 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 1886年 (1886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.