Year in Japan

966 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Kōhō 康保 (year 3 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Sei Shōnagon 清少納言 · Historian — Japanese author and court lady
Fujiwara no Kintō 藤原公任 · Writer — poet

Reading the year 966 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 966 corresponds to Kōhō 康保 (year 3 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 966年 (966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.