Year in Japan

989 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Eiso 永祚 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Eiso 永祚 · Japanese era name — Japanese era spanning from August 988 through November 990
Taira no Sadamori 平貞盛 · Samurai — Japanese samurai

Reading the year 989 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 989 corresponds to Eiso 永祚 (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 989年 (989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.