Year in Japan

976 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Jōgen 貞元 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Jōgen 貞元 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from 976 to 978
Izumi Shikibu 和泉式部 · Writer — Japanese poet

Reading the year 976 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 976 corresponds to Jōgen 貞元 (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 976年 (976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.