Year in Japan
816 in Japanese History
3 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Heian period (平安時代, 794 – 1185).
Era name: Kōnin 弘仁 (year 7 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Henjo 遍昭 · Writer — Japanese writer
- Kongōbu-ji Temple 金剛峯寺 · Buddhist temple — Buddhist temple in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan
- Sosei 素性 · Writer — Japanese poet
Reading the year 816 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 816 corresponds to Kōnin 弘仁 (year 7 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 816年 (816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.