Year in Japan

938 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Tengyō 天慶 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Tengyō 天慶 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from 938 to 947

Reading the year 938 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 938 corresponds to Tengyō 天慶 (year 1 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 938年 (938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.