Year in Japan

793 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Enryaku 延暦 (year 12 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Settsu Province 摂津国 · Province of Japan — former province of Japan
Ennin 円仁 · Writer — Japanese Buddhist monk (794–864)

Reading the year 793 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 793 corresponds to Enryaku 延暦 (year 12 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 793年 (793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.