Year in Japan

890 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Kanpyō 寛平 (year 2 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Minamoto no Tsunemoto 源経基 · Samurai — Samurai and progenitor of the Seiwa Genji branch of the Minamoto clan
Sōji-ji Temple 総持寺 · Buddhist temple — Buddhist temple in Ibaraki, Osaka prefecture, Japan

Reading the year 890 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 890 corresponds to Kanpyō 寛平 (year 2 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 890年 (890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.