Year in Japan

1890 in Japanese History

4 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Meiji period (明治時代, 1868 – 1912).

Era name: Meiji era 明治 (year 23 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Hatazō Adachi 安達二十三 · Military officer — Japanese officer, war criminal 1890-1947
Tsugi Takano 鷹野つぎ · Writer — Japanese writer (1890–1943)
Kiyoshi Kiyosawa 清沢洌 · Journalist — journalist and writer (1890-1945)
Hisajo Sugita 杉田久女 · Writer — Japanese haiku writer (1890–1946)

Reading the year 1890 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1890 corresponds to Meiji era 明治 (year 23 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 1890年 (1890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.