Year in Japan

968 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Anna 安和 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Anna 安和 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from 968 to 970
Minamoto no Yorinobu 源頼信 · Samurai — Samurai commander and member of the powerful Minamoto clan

Reading the year 968 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 968 corresponds to Anna 安和 (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 968年 (968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.