Year in Japan

953 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Tenryaku 天暦 (year 7 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Watanabe no Tsuna 渡辺綱 · Samurai — Japanese samurai

Reading the year 953 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 953 corresponds to Tenryaku 天暦 (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 953年 (953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.