Year in Japan

1897 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Meiji era 明治 (year 30 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Tōyō Mitsunobu 光延東洋 · Military officer — Japanese admiral (1897–1944)
Kiyoshi Miki 三木清 · Philosopher — Japanese philosopher
Prince Fushimi Hiroyoshi 博義王 · Politician — Japanese prince
Tomioka Makoto 富岡誠 · Writer — Japanese writer (1897–1926)
Seigo Taguchi 田口省吾 · Painter — painter (1897-1943)

Reading the year 1897 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1897 corresponds to Meiji era 明治 (year 30 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 1897年 (1897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.