Year in Japan

834 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Jōwa 承和 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Jōwa 承和 · Japanese era name — Japanese era spanning from January 834 through July 848

Reading the year 834 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 834 corresponds to Jōwa 承和 (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 834年 (834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.