Year in Japan
654 in Japanese History
1 recorded entry for this year. It falls in the Asuka period (飛鳥時代, 538 – 710).
Era name: Hakuchi 白雉 (year 5 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Prince Takechi 高市皇子 · Politician — Japanese prince (654-696)
Reading the year 654 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 654 corresponds to Hakuchi 白雉 (year 5 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 654年 (654ねん) in modern Japanese. Browse the full timeline to see where this year sits in the wider arc, or the 7th century for its neighbours.