Year in Japan

814 in Japanese History

1 recorded entry for this year. It falls in the Heian period (平安時代, 794 – 1185).

Era name: Kōnin 弘仁 (year 5 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Enchin 円珍 · Writer — Buddhist monk and founder of the Jimon school of Tendai Buddhism

Reading the year 814 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 814 corresponds to Kōnin 弘仁 (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 814年 (814ねん) in modern Japanese. Browse the full timeline to see where this year sits in the wider arc, or the 9th century for its neighbours.