Year in Japan
1909 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 42 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Osamu Dazai 太宰治 · Writer — Japanese author
- Atsushi Nakajima 中島敦 · Writer — Japanese writer (1909–1942)
- Kōichi Kishi 貴志康一 · Musician — Japanese composer, conductor, and violinist
Reading the year 1909 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1909 corresponds to Meiji era 明治 (year 42 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 1909年 (1909ねん) in modern Japanese. Browse the full timeline to see where this year sits in the wider arc, or the 20th century for its neighbours.