Year in Japan

877 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Gangyō 元慶 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Gangyō 元慶 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from April 877 to March 885
Fujiwara no Kanesuke 藤原兼輔 · Writer — Japanese poet

Reading the year 877 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 877 corresponds to Gangyō 元慶 (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 877年 (877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.