Year in Japan
912 in Japanese History
2 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Heian period (平安時代, 794 – 1185).
Era name: Engi 延喜 (year 12 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Minamoto no Mitsunaka 源満仲 · Samurai — Samurai and Court official of Japan's Heian period
- Nakatsukasa 中務 (敦慶親王の娘) · Writer — Japanese writer
Reading the year 912 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 912 corresponds to Engi 延喜 (year 12 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 912年 (912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.