Year in Japan
1896 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 29 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Kenji Miyazawa 宮沢賢治 · Writer — Japanese poet and author of children's literature (1896-1933)
- Tomoe Iwaoka 岩岡とも枝 · Painter — Japanese illustrator and Japanese-style painter
- Kaita Murayama 村山槐多 · Writer — Japanese writer and artist (1896–1919)
Reading the year 1896 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1896 corresponds to Meiji era 明治 (year 29 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 1896年 (1896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.