Year in Japan
1895 in Japanese History
3 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Meiji period (明治時代, 1868 – 1912).
Era name: Meiji era 明治 (year 28 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Noe Itō 伊藤野枝 · Writer — Japanese anarchist, social critic, author and feminist
- Chigusa Kitani 木谷千種 · Painter — Japanese painter (1895–1947)
- Harue Koga 古賀春江 · Painter — Japanese artist (1895-1933)
Reading the year 1895 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1895 corresponds to Meiji era 明治 (year 28 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 1895年 (1895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.