Year in Japan
718 in Japanese History
8 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Nara period (奈良時代, 710 – 794).
Era name: Yōrō 養老 (year 2 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Awa Province 安房国 · Province of Japan — province of Japan, now part of Chiba Prefecture
- Noto Province 能登国 · Province of Japan — province of Japan
- Iwaki Province 石城国 · Province of Japan — province of Japan (8th century)
- Iwase Province 石背国 · Province of Japan — province of Japan
- Gangō-ji Temple 元興寺 · Buddhist temple — Buddhist temple in Nara Prefecture, Japan
- Fuki-ji Temple 富貴寺 · Buddhist temple — building in Oita Prefecture, Japan
- Ōtomo no Yakamochi 大伴家持 · Politician — Japanese statesman and poet of the Nara period
- Daisen-ji Temple 大山寺 · Buddhist temple — Buddhist temple in Tottori Prefecture, Japan
Reading the year 718 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 718 corresponds to Yōrō 養老 (year 2 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 718年 (718ねん) in modern Japanese. Browse the full timeline to see where this year sits in the wider arc, or the 8th century for its neighbours.