Year in Japan

908 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Engi 延喜 (year 8 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Kiyohara no Motosuke 清原元輔 · Writer — Japanese writer

Reading the year 908 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 908 corresponds to Engi 延喜 (year 8 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 908年 (908ねん) in modern Japanese. Browse the full timeline to see where this year sits in the wider arc, or the 10th century for its neighbours.