Year in Japan

956 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Tenryaku 天暦 (year 10 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Akazome Emon 赤染衛門 · Writer — Japanese poet
Kintarō 金太郎 · Samurai — Japanese folklore hero

Reading the year 956 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 956 corresponds to Tenryaku 天暦 (year 10 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 956年 (956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.