Year in Japan

920 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 20 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Fujiwara no Morotada 藤原師尹 · Politician — Japanese politician
Sone no Yoshitada 曽禰好忠 · Writer — Japanese poet and writer

Reading the year 920 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 920 corresponds to Engi 延喜 (year 20 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 920年 (920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.