Year in Japan

845 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Jōwa 承和 (year 12 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Sugawara no Michizane 菅原道真 · Writer — Japanese poet
Ki no Haseo 紀長谷雄 · Politician — Japanese poet and writer

Reading the year 845 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 845 corresponds to Jōwa 承和 (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 845年 (845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.