Year in Japan

944 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Tengyō 天慶 (year 7 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Fujiwara no Akimitsu 藤原顕光 · Samurai — Japanese noble
Fujiwara no Sukemasa 藤原佐理 · Politician — Japanese noble, statesman and calligrapher

Reading the year 944 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 944 corresponds to Tengyō 天慶 (year 7 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 944年 (944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.