Year in Japan

757 in Japanese History

2 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Nara period (奈良時代, 710 – 794).

Era name: Tenpyō-hōji 天平宝字 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Izumi Province 和泉国 · Province of Japan — province of Japan
Tenpyō-hōji 天平宝字 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from 757 to 765

Reading the year 757 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 757 corresponds to Tenpyō-hōji 天平宝字 (year 1 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 757年 (757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.