Year in Japan
900 in Japanese History
7 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Heian period (平安時代, 794 – 1185).
Era name: Shōtai 昌泰 (year 3 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Fujiwara no Okikaze 藤原興風 · Writer — Japanese poet
- Ōshikōchi no Mitsune 凡河内躬恒 · Writer — Japanese writer
- Fujiwara no Hidesato 藤原秀郷 · Samurai — samurai of mid-Heian period
- Fujiwara no Saneyori 藤原実頼 · Samurai — Japanese noble
- Enpuku-ji Temple 円福寺 · Buddhist temple — Buddhist temple in Chiba Prefecture, Japan
- Fun'ya no Yasuhide 文屋康秀 · Writer — poet
- Kajū-ji Temple 勧修寺 · Buddhist temple — architectural structure
Reading the year 900 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 900 corresponds to Shōtai 昌泰 (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 900年 (900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.