Year in Japan
1898 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 31 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Jūkichi Yagi 八木重吉 · Writer — Japanese poet (1898-1927)
- Riichi Yokomitsu 横光利一 · Writer — Japanese writer (1898-1947)
- Yuzo Saeki 佐伯祐三 · Painter — Japanese painter (1898-1928)
- Shūhō Yamakawa 山川秀峰 · Painter — Japanese painter and printmaker (1898-1944)
- Denji Kuroshima 黒島伝治 · Writer — Japanese writer
- Daizaburō Nakamura 中村大三郎 · Painter — Japanese painter (1898-1947)
Reading the year 1898 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1898 corresponds to Meiji era 明治 (year 31 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 1898年 (1898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.