Year in Japan
1894 in Japanese History
6 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Meiji period (明治時代, 1868 – 1912).
Era name: Meiji era 明治 (year 27 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Oct 22 1894 Shōnai earthquake 庄内地震 · Natural disaster — earthquake in Japan
- Yoshiki Hayama 葉山嘉樹 · Writer — Japanese writer (1894–1945)
- Kan Abe 安倍寛 · Politician — Japanese politician
- Gyoshū Hayami 速水御舟 · Painter — Japanese artist (1894-1935)
- Masanari Takagi 高木正得 · Politician — Japanese entomologist
- Kanpū Ōmata 大亦観風 · Painter — Japanese artist (1894-1947)
Reading the year 1894 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1894 corresponds to Meiji era 明治 (year 27 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 1894年 (1894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.