Year in Japan

821 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 12 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Taiyū-ji Temple 太融寺 · Buddhist temple — building in Kita-ku, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Reading the year 821 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 821 corresponds to Kōnin 弘仁 (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 821年 (821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.