Year in Japan

957 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Tentoku 天徳 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Tentoku 天徳 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from 957 to 961
Fujiwara no Sanesuke 藤原実資 · Samurai — Japanese noble

Reading the year 957 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 957 corresponds to Tentoku 天徳 (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 957年 (957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.