Year in Japan

974 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Ten'en 天延 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Ten'en 天延 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from 974 to 976
Fujiwara no Korechika 藤原伊周 · Samurai — kugyo

Reading the year 974 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 974 corresponds to Ten'en 天延 (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 974年 (974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.