Year in Japan

850 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Kashō 嘉祥 (year 3 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Ki no Tomonori 紀友則 · Writer — poet
Butsuryū-ji Temple 仏隆寺 · Buddhist temple — Buddhist temple in Uda, Nara Prefecture, Japan

Reading the year 850 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 850 corresponds to Kashō 嘉祥 (year 3 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 850年 (850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.