Year in Japan

996 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Chōtoku 長徳 (year 2 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Fujiwara no Norimichi 藤原教通 · Samurai — Japanese kugyo
Takashina no Takako 高階貴子 · Writer — Japanese waka poet

Reading the year 996 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 996 corresponds to Chōtoku 長徳 (year 2 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 996年 (996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.